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One week before district play and the high school football teams in the area are trying to get ready. We are 44-10 in our high school picks after going 9-0 last week. So here we go into week seven....

Liberty 49, Oak Park 7: It may be a long time before the great Northland rivals will meet again, now that they are in different classes and conferences. The Blue Jays have more firepower than the younger Northmen. It's Liberty's homecoming, so the team should be fired up to win.

Now we are getting to the second half of the high school football season, where playoff-hopeful teams start to make their push. So far, we are 35-10 in picking games. Here is the week six picks....

Liberty 40, St. Joseph Central 24: The Indians have just enough weapons to make the Blue Jays nervous. Liberty started slow in its only other game played on grass (Lee's Summit). It's supposed to be a chilly night in St. Joseph, but the Blue Jays should have enough to win.

Here we are at the halfway mark of high school football's regular season. So far, our record is 29-8 in picking games.
There are some tough decisions to be made this week....

Liberty 35, Lee's Summit North 7: The Blue Jays had some warts exposed against Park Hill. But the Broncos are simply not as good as the Trojans. Liberty moves to 4-1.

The season is going quickly. We have another big week of high school football games. We were 7-2 in week three. Through three weeks, we are 23-5 in picking games.

Liberty 34, Park Hill 13: Park Hill has a good team, but Liberty has too many weapons to stop. The Blue Jays' undefeated train doesn't stop against the Trojans.

It's week three of high school football. So far, I'm 16-3 with the picks. Not a bad percentage.

Here we go with the picks:

There are always some interesting things that happen on the Liberty sports scene that don't make it into the paper.
Many Tuesday and Wednesday games get left behind because of press deadlines. My hope is that I can use this blog to fill in some of the spaces left.
Here's what happened on an interesting Tuesday, Sept. 8 at Liberty High....
Liberty's softball team looked dead in the sixth inning, trailing Lee's Summit 6-0. Teams just don't come back six runs down with only two more chances to hit, right?
The Blue Jays found a way, scoring four runs in the sixth and three in the seventh to get a 7-6 win. Senior Laura Kampman had a huge RBI triple down the right-field line in the seventh and junior Taylor Atwood brought her home with an RBI single to tie the game. Senior Bailey Marshall had the game-winning RBI.
After the game, I asked Liberty coach Scott Howard what was the biggest deficit one of his teams had overcome. He knew it right away because it came against the same opponent.
Last year, Liberty trailed Lee's Summit 7-0 and came back to win.

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Liberty High's volleyball team struggled without the full services of senior outside hitter Katie Damgar and lost in straight sets to Lee's Summit North.
Damgar was relegated to libero duties because of some back issues and the Blue Jays had difficulties putting points away in a 25-20, 25-18 loss.

Here we go with the second week of high school football picks after going 8-1 in the first week.

Liberty 48, Raymore-Peculiar 30: The sting of Raymore-Peculiar hanging 60 on Liberty last season provides the Blue Jays plenty of motivation. Even though Liberty is on the road, it won't have problems putting points on the board. It's hard to imagine Ray-Pec's Cameron Coffman can throw for 533 yards and five touchdowns again.
The Blue Jays showed the ability to stop Columbia Hickman in the scoring zone. The Panthers provide another test.

Each week, I will be making Northland high school football picks. They will be published on the website every Thursday or Friday morning.

Week One
Kearney 45, Raytown 7: The Bulldogs start the season by rolling over the Blue Jays.