IT'S GAME DAY

Playoff positioning is on the line tonight as the Bearcats travel to Lavaca.

Ironically, Lavaca last made the playoffs as a class 3A team in 2014 when they were in a conference with the Bearcats.

Both teams come in with 6-2 records. The Bearcats are 4-1 in Conference 3A-1 play and coming off their first conference loss in six years. A win would clinch the two seed for the Bearcats.

The last team in the league to lose a game, Lavaca comes in 3-2 in 3A-1 games, having suffered back-to-back one point losses to Greenland and Mansfield.

Mascots: Booneville Bearcats; Lavaca Golden Arrows
When: 7 p.m, 10-28, at Jimmy B. Hobbs Memorial Stadium
Series: Booneville leads 6-0-0 (1.000)
Last Meeting: Bearcats 42 Lavaca 27 on 11-6-2015
Streak:Booneville has won last 6
First Meeting: Bearcats 53 Lavaca 0 on 10-9 1998
Conference Affiliations: Both Booneville and Lavaca are 3A-1

THIS DATE IN BEARCAT FOOTBALL HISTORY: THIS DATE IN BEARCAT FOOTBALL HISTORY: The Bearcats are 11-4 in games documented to have been played on October 28 with the most recent being a 42-0 win over West Fork in 2016 when Caleb Draper had an 84-yard touchdown run and finished with 173 rushing yards.

On October 28, 2005 Tobler Turner ran 89 yards for a touchdown against Farmington and finished the night with 268 yards.

On this date in 1994 Matt Warrick stripped an Ozark ball carrier of the ball and rumbled 34 yards for a touchdown

Floyd Parnell ran for 159 yards against St. Anne's on October 28, 1966.

TONIGHT IN THE 3A-1: Bearcats at Lavaca; Mansfield at Cedarville; West Fork at Charleston; Hackett at Greenland