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Prep primer: Big games in Week 6

It's Week 6 of the high school football season, which means it's time for our Big Game breakdown:

For starters, when Batavia travels to Geneva tonight, there's much more than the usual bragging rights at stake.

Both teams are 5-0, and this contest will almost surely decide the eventual champion of the Upstate Eight's River Division.

Lakes hosts Antioch in a battle of teams vying for supremacy in the North Suburban Conference's Prairie Division. The Sequoits are unbeaten, but both teams are 2-0 in divisional play. It's homecoming weekend at Lakes, and there's a multimedia buzz, thanks in part to Facebook, surrounding the game.Glenbard North is unbeaten, but the Panthers are just entering the meat of their schedule, beginning with tonight's DuPage Valley Conference clash at Naperville Central. Can Glenbard North's powerful running attack hold up against better competition?

In the Mid-Suburban League, the East and West Divisional races are too tight to call. As Marty Maciaszek explains, every week from here through Week 9 will shuffle the standings.Streamwood, meanwhile, aims to improve to 6-0 and will face a winless St. Charles East team tonight at Millennium Field, while Larkin intends to keep its playoff drive rolling in a date with Waubonsie Valley at Memorial Field.Standing tall at Grayslake CentralJoey Valdivia is a product of Grayslake youth football, but even he had a hard time watching the varsity team at Grayslake Central when he was growing up. Those were the tough years for the Rams' football program #8212; but thanks in part to Valdivia, these are the glory years. Grayslake Central is 5-0 heading into tonight's game against Crystal Lake Central and, as Patricia Babcock McGraw explains, Valdivia's powerful running has a lot to do with the program's reversal of course.They're setJunior setter Caleigh Ryan is helping Glenbard West to a girls volleyball resurgence. The Hilltoppers won a state title in 1983 before enduring some lean years, but she's got them headed in the right direction. Joshua Welge's column explains how one player can make such a dramatic difference.sales26704000Joey Valdivia has Grayslake Central standing tall after a 5-0 start.steve Lundy/slundy@dailyherald.comsales 14581954Junior setter Caleigh Ryan has Glenbard WestÂ’s girls volleyball program back in winning form.BEV HORNE/bhorne@dailyherald.com