By Terry Boehmker

NKyTribune sports reporter

Bellevue’s football team will play its first home game of the season Friday on the new synthetic turf at Gilligan Field that’s part of an $8.4 million project to upgrade the school district’s athletic facilities.

The Tigers had their first practice session on the field Monday and coach Chad Montgomery reminded his players they can make history when they take on St. Henry at 7 p.m. Friday.

“We’ve tried to make a big deal out it,” the coach said. “I told our guys they were the last ones to walk off the old field with a win last year and they have a chance to be the first team to win on the new one. That’s not an opportunity everybody gets.”

The new field is the next chapter in the Bellevue football program’s comeback story.

Three years ago,

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