After last season’s run to the IHSA Class 7A quarterfinals marked its longest postseason run in nine years, Bradley-Bourbonnais hit the Class 6A playoffs running with a 42-21 win over Shepard on Friday looking to start off another lengthy playoff push.

Spearheaded by productive nights from Isaac Allison and Ky’ren Edmon, the Boilermakers ran for 264 yards on their home field. They also got a pair of return touchdowns from Jamir Burt, one on a punt and one on a kickoff.

“We have a lot of guys that can do a lot of stuff,” Burt said. “What the coaches tell us it to ‘be your one out of 11, and do your job so everybody else can do their job.’ We’ll be good if we all do our job. We’ll succeed.”

The Boilermaker offense got off to a bit of a slow start with a turnover on downs on the opening

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