Jackson County Central’s football team improved its record to 4-0 on the season this week as LeSueur-Henderson forfeited its scheduled Friday night game with the Huskies at Giant Stadium in LeSueur.
On a Facebook post, the LSH School District cited a lack of healthy players for the forfeit.
Next on the schedule for JCC is its homecoming game vs. Redwood Valley next Friday night.
Series highlights
Series: Jackson County Central leads 3-1
Regular season: Jackson County Central leads 1-0
Postseason: Jackson County Central leads 2-1
First meeting: Jackson County Central 44, LeSueur-Henderson 6 (1997)
Last meeting: Jackson County Central 2, LeSueur-Henderson 0 (forfeit, 2023)
Current streak: Won 1
Longest Huskies win streak: 2 (1997-1999)
Longest Giants win streak: 1 (2002)
Most Huskies points: 44 (1998)
Most Giants points: 22 (2002)
Scores
All-time scores in the JCC-LSH series.
1997: Jackson County Central 44, LeSueur-Henderson 6 (Section 3AAA semifinals)
1998: Jackson County Central 39, LeSueur-Henderson 15 (Section 3AAA quarterfinals)
2002: LeSueur-Henderson 22, Jackson County Central 16 (OT) Section 3AAA semifinals)
2023: Jackson County Central 2, LeSueur-Henderson 0 (forfeit)
4-0 starts
This is the 12th time in 27 seasons that a Jackson County Central football team has started the season 4-0. Here are those seasons with the final record that year in parenthesis.
1997 (13-1)
1998 (12-2)
1999 (8-3)
2000 (10-1)
2003 (10-1)
2006 (9-2)
2009 (9-2)
2016 (10-1)
2018 (9-2)
2019 (11-1)
2022 (12-1)
2023 (?)