The Lafayette football team will open their 2020 season this Friday at Harrisonville after the Fighting Irish finalized a schedule change Sunday.
LHS was scheduled to play Carnahan High School out of St. Louis, but after they back out of the game last week, Lafayette was searching for a new opponent and Harrisonville happened to have an opening in week one.
The Fighting Irish went 5-5 last season as Eric McDowell enters his third season as the head coach of Lafayette. He's 12-8 in two years and 8-5 in the MEC.
Harrisonville has rich football tradition as they've won five state championship in their history. The latest came in 2016. The Wildcats were 6-6 last season.
Lafayette will kick off with Harrisonville at 7:00 p.m. Friday inside Memorial Stadium.