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Update: Blue Dukes Face City Conference Foe in Friday Night Playoff Game

Whitefish Bay in Division 2 for the first time.

Whitefish Bay will face off against Bradley Tech in the first round of the WIAA Division 2 football playoffs Friday night.

Kickoff is at 7 p.m. Friday at Milwaukee South Stadium at 10th and Becher Street. Admission is $4. A victory would move the Dukes on to the second round of the playoffs, versus either Greendale or Brookfield East.

Pairings were released by the WIAA Tuesday afternoon after a .

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The Blue Dukes (5-4, 4-3 North Shore Conference) clinched a berth by routing Nicolet 35-6 in the season finale. This season marks the fourth in a row Whitefish Bay has reached the playoffs; the Blue Dukes lost in the first round in the previous three trips, all in Division 3.

Rashadeem Gray has rushed for 1,066 yards and 14 scores to lead the offense, according to statistics at WisSports.net.

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Tech (6-3, 5-1 City Conference) took only one league defeat but it was a whopper, 70-0 to Riverside on a game broadcast on My 24 Thursday Night Lights. Tech’s trips outside the league were also big defeats, 50-14 to defending Division 1 state champion Waukesha West and 49-16 to Kenosha Tremper.


(This article was updated at 5 p.m. to include new details from the WIAA about the date and the time of the game.)


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