It may only be week two of the high school football season but an 8-man football game in Anita on Friday night will have a playoff game feel. The CAM Cougars play host to the Audubon Wheelers this week and we’ll have coverage of the game on KJAN. The game will be one of the highlight games around the state on Friday night with both teams included in the latest top 10 rankings. Audubon is ranked #3 in both the latest Radio Iowa and AP top ten polls, while the Cougars are #8 in the AP poll.

CAM is already 2-0 on the season with a week zero win over Lenox on the road and a win last week at Murray. The Cougars have a strong core that have been impact players for a number of years now. Quarterback Thomas Hensley has already racked up 3 passing touchdowns and 8 rushing touchdowns on the season. The offensive balance that CAM has been able to show off in the early portion of the season is what concerns Audubon Co-Head Coach Sean Birks. He said the Cougars do a great job of setting things up with their run game and the Wheelers will need to find a way to slow that down first.

Coach Birks was impressed with his team’s ability to stay ahead of the chains in their first game of the season and said that will be a key to success in week two as well.

Audubon is coming off a week one win over Exira-EHK 55-14 and the Wheelers got strong production from their senior leaders. Tyler Reibhoff at quarterback, Nolan Smith at running back, and Josh Lange at receiver get a lot of the attention for the Wheelers but CAM Head Coach Joe Wollum is also worried about their size advantage.

It should be a big game type atmosphere as both sides will likely have large followings at the game and Coach Wollum thinks a game like this early in the season will be valuable experience for his team down the road.

We’ll have coverage of the game on KJAN Friday night. Our weekly pick ’em show Who’s Gonna Win? airs at 6:00pm followed by the Dvorak Tire and Service Pregame show at 6:30pm, and kickoff is set for 7:00pm in Anita.  Chris Parks and Mike Smith will have the call on AM1220, FM101.1, online at kjan.com and on the KJAN mobile app. You can also watch live streaming video of the game on KJANTV, just go to our TV page at kjan.com and click play on the video player when the stream begins.