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Citizens South Bank Cup rivalry heats up Friday
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Published: October 8, 2008
Get the fire extinguishers ready. What takes place on the football field Friday night is sure to stoke the fire fueling the rivalry that exists between the sports programs at Mooresville and Lake Norman high schools.
Helping spice the festivities taking place during the one and only regular season meeting on the gridiron between the this-time visiting Blue Devils and host Wildcats will be the official presentation of the annual Citizens South Bank Cup.
It's the traveling trophy that will find a home this inaugural time around on the Lake Norman campus as reward for winning the head-to-head varsity sports competition that is now in place between the two neighboring schools.
Each and every time representatives of the program meet on a head-to-head basis, valuable points for each are at stake. In sports in which they don't really conduct such one-on-one offerings, how each performs on an overall basis also carries a points value. Only in football do the stakes increase. There, the bouts are worth two program points each.
The Citizens Cup, made possible through the efforts of sponsor Citizens South Bank, is making its debut as far as being officially presented to one school or the other is concerned. It's sure to light a fire under both camps.
Lake Norman took top honors by prevailing in the most number of such encounters during the course of the 2007-08 school year. As a result, it's the one accepting the distinction. Citizens South reps are expected to make the offer in person, doing so much to the delight of the home school faithful and perhaps chagrin of the visiting followers in attendance.
Already, matters are well underway in regards to the points being accumulated towards this year's Cup. The race is much too close and much too early to call at this point, but it's again close as the fall season nears its latter stages.
Once presented, the Cup will be on display no doubt in a prominent place on the Lake Norman High campus. It will also, as required, be in place whenever head-to-head battles between the two take place. This week's football game is the last of those one-on-one affairs, barring some unforeseen playoff scenarios, on tap between the two. All that is left is the competition on the cross country fronts. Both schools have reason to gloat over those possibilities as well.
In conjunction with the Citizens Cup, one student each from the schools will also be the recipient of a scholarship as part of the trophy program. Those winners will be announced at the end of the school and sports year.
It was designated that the presentation of the yearly winner take place during the course of each of the fall season's football games, the thinking there being that's when most of those in attendance will be in place. It's also a sure thing that, by so doing, it will add more wood to the existing rivalry fire that continues to build between the two programs.
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