(New Buffalo, MI) - The weather throughout the area has become much more comfortable today than it has been recently, to say the least.

 

A lot of high school sport events were cancelled yesterday due to the extremely hot and humid conditions.

 

In New Buffalo, the season-opening high school football game was not postponed, but rather pushed back one hour to allow the temperatures to drop back to safer levels.  

 

By kick-off, conditions had started to become more comfortable.

 

“I think it was a wise decision. There’s a little breeze kicking up,” remarked Superintendent Michael Lindley.

 

Lindley said rescheduling the game would have posed some challenges because the high school soccer team has a match scheduled later today at the football field.

 

Such a move also would have interfered with the schedules of referees with no guarantees of finding replacements, he said. 

 

The Red Arrow Raiders, consisting of students from New Buffalo and River Valley high schools, led 24-to-0 at the end of the first quarter with help from long touchdown runs by Owen Slavin and interception returned 40 yards for a touchdown by M'Nason Smothers. 

 

The team went on to an easy 74-14 victory over Bloomingdale.