LaGrange High plays Griffin for region crown

Our high five sports game of the week takes us to Troop County tonight. It's a showdown between the Griffin Bears and the LaGrange Grangers. Let's get out to Fox 5 Sports. Lexi Bowden live with a look at the big matchup tonight. Lexi. Ready? Yeah, took the drive down to La Grange tonight for a heavyweight clash between Griffin and La Grange, and this one is basically a de facto region championship. Because if La Grange wins tonight, they clinched their first region title since 2006. So we're going to have highlights coming up later on high five. It's going to be a good game here, but first just want to talk a little bit about what the school has to offer. I'm here with 7th year athletic director Kareem Donay and Kareem, Just talk about, you know, the energy around tonight and also Look, a lot of tradition here at La Grange, especially for La Grange Athletics. You know, an opportunity to clinch the first region title, like you said, in 20 years. So, you know, the community is excited. Our Granger Nation is excited. The kids, it's been a great week of school. And, you know, we're excited for what we can put out there today, for sure, yeah. And a lot of great energy, too. I mean, we're two hours before kickoff, and you can see some of the students starting to trickle in in their Halloween costumes, as well as Halloween is tomorrow. And I wanted to bring up the fine arts program and what else there is outside of football as well. I know you guys always put on a huge production in the spring, but can you guys talk a little bit about what the program has going on right now? Yeah, so I'm Randy Kemper. I'm the theater teacher. And one of the things that's really exciting about what we do here at LaGrange is our kids are involved across the board. As you see, we have band members and cheerleaders and football players, all of whom are very involved in the fine arts. This is Brandy Turner, our chorus teacher, and Jarrett Farrell, our band director. And one of the things that makes this place so special is we work together to schedule and make sure that our kids can do as many things as possible, whether it's sports or arts or Green Power or being involved at the local theater, Lafayette Society for the Performing Arts. There are so many things that we as a community have to offer, and we just want to make sure that these kids have as many opportunities to get involved as possible. Yeah, well that is incredible and I'm sure as we hear the Halloween music start behind Behind us, they're going to want to see a win tonight, but the Griffin Bears, a really tough matchup, they're going to try to win tonight to keep their region title hopes alive. Well, coming up later on in the 6 p.m. news, we'll have interviews with both of the head coaches, starting off with LaGrange head coach Matt Napier. I'll have much more coming, but for now, Lexi Bowden from LaGrange High School. Looks like a lot of fun out there. Lexi, thanks. All right.