{"id":157865,"date":"2025-06-25T17:20:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/157865\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:20:10","slug":"an-early-look-at-bureau-valleys-2025-football-season-shaw-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/157865\/","title":{"rendered":"An early look at Bureau Valley\u2019s 2025 football season \u2013 Shaw Local"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-xb1qmn-0 eJGKLK body-paragraph\">While there was discussion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawlocal.com\/tags\/bureau-valley-preps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.shawlocal.com\/tags\/bureau-valley-preps\/\">Bureau Valley<\/a> would move to the Small School Division of the Lincoln Trail Conference, the Storm remain in the Large School Division for their second season in the LTC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-xb1qmn-0 eJGKLK body-paragraph\">The Storm went 3-4 in its first season in the LTC, finishing 4-5 overall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-xb1qmn-0 eJGKLK body-paragraph\">Here\u2019s an early look at the Storm\u2019s 2025 season<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-xb1qmn-0 eJGKLK body-paragraph\">Friday, Aug. 29 at St. Bede &#8211; The Storm will renew acquaintances with former Three Rivers rival Bruins to kick off the 2025 season. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawlocal.com\/tags\/st-bede-preps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.shawlocal.com\/tags\/st-bede-preps\/\">St. Bede<\/a> proceeded Bureau Valley\u2019s exit from the Three Rivers in 2023. The Bruins beat the Storm 31-20 in their last meeting in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-xb1qmn-0 eJGKLK body-paragraph\">Friday, Sept. 5 vs. Annawan-Wethersfield &#8211; The Storm will make their home debut under new head coach Patrick Elder in a LTC crossover against the Titans. A-W went 6-4 last year, falling in the first round of the 1A playoffs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-xb1qmn-0 eJGKLK body-paragraph\">Friday, Sept. 12 at Knoxville &#8211; The conference opener sends the Storm to Knoxville. The Storm routed the Blue Bullets 47-14 at home last year. Knoxville finished 2-7 a year ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-xb1qmn-0 eJGKLK body-paragraph\">Friday, Sept. 19 vs. Macomb &#8211; The Storm return home Week 4 to face the Bombers looking to avenge a 41-7 loss last year in Macomb. The Bombers placed third in the division (5-2) last year, 7-3 overall with a first-round loss in the 4A playoffs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-xb1qmn-0 eJGKLK body-paragraph\">Friday, Sept. 26 at Elmwood-Brimfield &#8211; The Storm hit the road for Week 5 to face the Trojans, who edged the Storm 27-21 last year in Macomb. E-B was the conference runner-up at 8-1 last year. The Trojans won one 2A playoff game, finishing 9-2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-xb1qmn-0 eJGKLK body-paragraph\">Friday, Oct. 3 at Lewistown\/Valley\/Cuba &#8211; The Storm stay on ther road for a Week 6 conference game to face the Indians. BV buried the LVC co-op 46-16. The Indians finished 0-9 last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-xb1qmn-0 eJGKLK body-paragraph\">Friday, Oct. 10 vs. Illini West &#8211; BV will welcome the Chargers for their 2025 Homecoming game. Illini West went 4-3 in league play last year, including a 34-7 win over the Storm in Carthage. The Chargers finished 6-4, dropping a 2A playoff opener.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-xb1qmn-0 eJGKLK body-paragraph\">Friday, Oct. 17 at West Hancock &#8211; Week 8 sends the Storm to Carthage to face the Titans, who the Storm beat 47-34 a year ago. The Titans went 1-6 in league play, 1-8 overall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-xb1qmn-0 eJGKLK body-paragraph\">Friday, Oct. 24 Farmington &#8211; The defending conference champion Farmers call on the Storm in the season finale. The Farmers blitzed BV 54-6 in Week 4 last year and did not lose a game until falling to Palos Heights Chicago Christian in the 2A state championship game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While there was discussion Bureau Valley would move to the Small School Division of the Lincoln Trail Conference,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[7,2682],"class_list":{"0":"post-157865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-high-school-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}