Tonight is not only the 2016 season finale for the West Central Valley Wildcat football team, it is a chance to earn a W in a big game going up against fellow Guthrie County school Panorama.

It’s an old rivalry that will be rekindled tonight after an absence dating all the way back to the 2012 season, the last time these two teams played each other. It’s a game for county pride, one year’s worth of bragging rights, and a chance for the Wildcats to potentially knock the Panthers out of the playoff race.

Certainly a lot of excitement and nerves surrounding tonight’s game but as West Central Valley head football coach Eric Addey told Raccoon Valley Radio, it’s not excitement nor nerves that surround him and his team but rather a sense of being fired up against familiar faces.

“I don’t think there are any butterflies for me or the players. The biggest thing is a lot of our players know a bunch of their players and stuff like that. It’s kind of an internal rivalry where I don’t necessarily think its us being nervous but more so as it is us being fired up because we’re going to have to see these guys around the way when it comes to basketball season or stopping at the gas station. We know each other, we’re very familiar with each other, not necessarily with our styles of play but with the people we’re playing against so it’s going to be very exciting,” stated coach Addey.

The big game will take place at West Central Valley tonight and kicking off at 7:00 pm.