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Eagles stepping up Fresh off opening win, Geneva will face a bigger test in Madison ADAM RAEDERStar Beacon Last year, the Eagles hung tough with Madison for a half, before the Blue Streaks’ superior size and strength wore them down.
“They’re nowhere near as big as they were,” Buckey said. “Last year, that definitely was a factor. We came out strong, because we were all good the first half. Then it all wore on us. They were really big last year.” Not only are some of the Blue Streaks’ big bodies gone, but Geneva has another year of weight training under their belts. They also have plenty of confidence after last week’s 42-7 thrashing of Wickliffe. “No one expects us to do that (win big),” Erb said. “When we go and blow someone out, we’ve got people coming up to us and telling us we did a great job last week. They keep telling us, it’s going to be this year.” In fact, after years of struggling to put together four solid quarters, their performance against Wickliffe increased the feeling around practice that this was a whole new Eagles team. This week could go a long way to proving that feeling right. “If we can beat Madison, we should beat everyone else on our schedule, definitely,” Buckey said. “This week is huge. This week should determine how we do the rest of the season.” Even with 11 straight wins to their credit, Madison’s not about to take anything for granted. “We’ve been really working hard and focusing on trying to beat them again,” senior linemen Frank Wrobleski said. And while the Eagles gained confidence from their Week 1 blowout, Madison is taking heart in their woulda, coulda, shoulda loss at Normandy. “We proved to ourselves we’re a good football team,” Willis said. “The key to last week is, you try to learn from your loss,” the coach added. “You try to turn everything into a positive. The key to it is, we try to improve on the things we did not-so-well last week. We’re going to look at last week as a positive, and try get better.” That means improving on a running attack that averaged just over 2 yards a carry against Normandy. “Offensively, we’re still trying to get our running game going a little bit. Defensively, we’ve got to tackle better,” Willis said. “Special teams, we’ve just got to work on the little things. But overall last week, the kids did a really, really good job. It was just a few little things. We’re just going to work on being a complete team for 40 minutes.” 
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