With the weather forecast calling for heavy rain on Friday, several high school football games in the Chattanooga area have been moved up a day.
Although showers are expected to begin on Thursday, the forecast calls for heavier rain Friday.
At least six prep football games involving area TSSAA teams — Bledsoe County at York Institute, Hixson at Signal Mountain, Sequoyah at Soddy Daisy, Tyner at Central, Walker Valley at Bradley Central, and Whitwell at Lookout Valley — as well as the GHSA nonregion game of Southeast Whitfield at Northwest Whitfield were rescheduled to kick off on Thursday evening.
Hixson-Signal Mountain (which is a Region 3-4A matchup) and Tyner-Central (a Region 3-3A game) both will kick off at 7 p.m., while 7:30 is the planned start time for Sequoyah-Soddy Daisy — which is not only a Region 3-4A matchup but homecoming for the Trojans — as well as the nonregion county rivalry clash between Walker Valley and Bradley Central, plus the Southeast-Northwest game. Bledsoe at York, a Region 2-2A battle, is set for 8 p.m.
Signal Mountain, which is off to a surprising 3-0 overall start, currently stands atop its region standings alongside Loudon and Red Bank, all with 1-0 league records, while Hixson has not yet played a region opponent. Soddy Daisy will look to even its region record at 1-1 against a young Sequoyah team that has been outscored by an average of 49-13 through three games.