Football Preview - Lena-Winslow Panthers

Last Season

If you told any other team, in any other state, that they would end their season just one step short of a state title game, they would see that as exceptional.

But not in Lena.

With expectations that exploded when the Panthers gave an elementary "Farm Football" lesson to Aurora Christian, nobody who followed the program thought the Panthers could be stopped short of winning back to back state titles.

But that's the funny thing about football - you have to play the game. And when Forreston upset the Panthers in the semifinals enroute to their own state crown, the overwhelming sense...