JOHANNESBURG ― During the August preseason prep, Johannesburg-Lewiston football head coach J oe Smokevitch said he and East Jordan head coach Adam Grybauskas shared a similar outlook that the Northern Michigan Football Conference-Legacy Division was getting more competitive, with the teams in the middle getting closer to the teams around the top. The first test of that theory came on September 5 as JoBurg, a team that has struggled since 2020, faced off against EJ, a perennial league title contender in that same time frame.

Based on the scoreboard, the gap between the two teams is seemingly not closing.

EJ played well in all three phases of the game, eventually pulling away from the Cardinals with a 51-0 victory, giving EJ (2-0, 1-0 NMFC-Legacy) its first conference win of the season.

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