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6:21

Ben Watanabe - Welcome to The Daily Journal's interactive Friday Night Football Scoreboard.

6:21

Ben Watanabe - We'll bring you live scoring updates from Vineland, Millville and Buena football games, as well as updated scores at the end of each quarter for all our other local teams.

6:22

Ben Watanabe - We have a full slate of games tonight, with every local team in action.

6:22

Ben Watanabe - Follow along with the scoreboard below, and feel free to offer comments and questions throughout the night. Due to the demands of covering the games, we can't promise we'll respond to every question, but we'll try.

6:25

Tom McGurk - We are live from Gittone Stadium where tonight the Vineland Fighting Clan (1-5) will host the Atlantic City Vikings (0-6).

6:26

Tom McGurk -

Its Homecoming and Senior Night here at Gittone

6:29

Tom McGurk -

Big news for Vineland has senior linebacker/center Franklin Holmes on the bench for the first quarter as he serves a penalty for disciplinary reasons stemming from an incident in school.

Junior Albert Arroyo will get the start at linebacker while senior Anthony Morrow will start at center.

6:30

Tom McGurk -

There's been a lot of talk in the pre-game about Atlantic City's Orris Gallagher. The junior is among the top tacklers on the Vikings from his safety spot.

6:31

Patrick Buganski - We are live from Holy Spirit where the Spartans (5-1) are hosting the Buena Chiefs (4-2).

6:32

Patrick Buganski - Pregame festivities continue. Buena is wearing its white tops and pants while Holy Spirit is donning the navy blue tops and gold pants.

6:33

Ben Watanabe - I'm going to try something new here tonight. Click the link below, and you should be able to follow the play-by-play from the Millville-Hammonton game as I type it.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AvdyAtFxnKhedG5TUC1LQ0RmOHhYNXQ4b3lMUXlPaHc&hl=en

6:33

Ben Watanabe - (you do need a Google or Gmail account; it's free, so if you don't have one, sign up to view)

6:33

Patrick Buganski - Just got a report that a good number of the Spartans missed time at school, and therefore practice, this week with the flu. We will see if that has any bearing on the outcome of tonight's game.

6:42

Ben Watanabe - Millville seeks its first playoff berth since 1998.

6:42

Tom McGurk - Vineland doesn't survive pre-game warm-ups without an injury. Junior lineman Ray Rivera suffered a dislocated left kneecap and was taken away in an ambulance.

6:44

Ben Watanabe - Everyone should be healthy for the Thunderbolts tonight, however, unfortunately for them, everyone should be healthy for Hammonton, too.

6:44

Tom McGurk -

Vineland's parade of homecoming hopefuls has started around Gittone Stadium with a police escort leading the way.

6:48

Patrick Buganski - The Holy Spirit cheerleaders have sorted out the music to be played bewteen quarters after some confusion. We should be ready to go soon in Absecon.

6:48

Tom McGurk - Beautiful night for football here at Gittone Stadium. temps in the high 50s with just the slighest of winds.

The Vineland staff guaranteed us a 7 p.m. start. despite the pre-game festivities. I seriously doubt it though.

6:49

Tom McGurk - For all of those awaiting crack staff photographer Craig Matthews' pick for the game.
SURPRISE: "Vineland by 10", he says

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