When the Class 3 4th ranked Monett Cubs host Class 2 top-ranked Lamar Friday night they will be heavy underdogs. Despite that, the Cubs are treating like any other game.
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"I think we're loose," said second-year Monett head coach Derek Uhl. "I know our kids are excited to play the five-time defending state champions and a very good football team. Our kids are excited to play them and see where we are as a team."
It may just be another game on the schedule, but there's plenty more on the line. Both teams enter with 3-0 records, and with the departure of Carl Junction to the COC Large, this becomes the defacto Big 8 championship after just four weeks.
Lamar has been untouchable so far this season, outscoring their three opponents 155-0, bringing their shutout streak to 22 quarters dating back to last November's Class 2 quarterfinal game against MV-BT/Liberty.
For a game this big we needed a big-time restaurant for this week's "Taste of the Town". That restaurant is the Family Room Steakhouse.
"We have people come in and say we want our sandwich and our salad," said owner Jami Lawrimore. "It's not even on the menut but we know what they want. It's the people like that that keep us going."
Lawrimore, a Pierce City native, opened the Family Room in March of 2012. While she says it's the hardest job she's ever head, she would do it all over again if she had the chance.
The menu features plenty of home-cooked favorites, including steak of course as well as the Southwestern Spud, pork tenderloin sandwich, and the very popular Black Kettle Salad; a holdover from the old Black Kettle Restaurant that was previously at the Family Room's downtown Monett location.
"It's pretty great," said one of Monett's 15 seniors of the pork tenderloin sandwich. "I've never had it before, but I'm going to start eating it now."
As part of the Taste of the Town shoot, the Monett football players taught their cheerleading counterparts their patented post game "tribal drill". The cheerleaders returned the favor by teaching the Cub football players the fight song cheer.
Check out the video to see what happened!
