Farmington Hosts Oakville in First Round on KREI

(Farmington) With its loss to Central, the Farmington football team dropped from the two seed to the three in Class 5 District 1 and out of the top ten in the Class Five state rankings. A potential bye turned into a first round meeting with the Oakville Tigers Friday night at Haile Memorial Stadium. Farmington closed the regular season at 7-2, while Oakville was unable to start play until week seven and have gone 0-3. Knights coach Erik Kruppe says they won’t overlook the Tigers…

One deficiency of Farmington this season has been a minus eight in the turnover department. Kruppe says they’ll have to reverse that trend to advance in the playoffs…

While Oakville is looking for a victory, coach Mike Genge says that just getting to play is a success in itself…

Genge says they were relieved to just start hitting other people…

If Farmington wins they will advance to the district semis next week at Seckman. You can listen to Knights football throughout the season on AM 800 KREI.