Greensboro, NC- Northwest Guilford has had Friday, September 2, 2016, circled on its calendar for almost an entire year. There were pictures of the scoreboard from last year’s game against Northern Guilford in the weight room, so every time a member of the football team did a rep, he saw what the team was working for. All of that hard work finally paid off for the Vikings on Friday when they beat their arch-rival, Northern Guilford, by a commanding 47-20 score. But the score alone doesn’t tell the whole story. The game was close after 24 minutes of play –…

R.L. Billings Stadium, on the campus of Northwest Guilford High School, will be packed tomorrow night when the arch-rival Northern Nighthawks travel up 150 West to take on the Vikings. This is one of the most heated rivalries in Guilford county these days, and with the Vikings determined to collect their first victory on the field against the Nighthawks in school history, Northern will look to feed off the energy from the rivalry to spark a lack-luster start to the 2016 football season as well as head coach Erik Westberg’s Northern coaching career. Northwest’s start to 2016 has been anything…