CHESTER — The past three seasons have ended abruptly for the Chester-Joplin-Inverness High School football team, losing in the 6-Man quarterfinals each of the past three fall slates.

Nonetheless, the team has still been in the mix at the top of the classification and sees itself being right back up there once again.

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"We're ready, we just want to play a game so bad," senior Cooper Streit said during Tuesday's practice at C-J-I High School. "We can practice an entire another month and I don't think we'd be more ready than now."

"Getting faster, stronger and kind of have the mentality just to go through, like push," senior Ryland St. John said. "Because we haven't really finished where we w

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