{"id":440827,"date":"2025-12-11T20:06:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T20:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/440827\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T20:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T20:06:13","slug":"undefeated-raines-heads-to-miami-for-class-3a-rematch-with-miami-northwestern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/440827\/","title":{"rendered":"Undefeated Raines heads to Miami for Class 3A rematch with Miami Northwestern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>JACKSONVILLE, Fla.<\/strong> \u2013 The Raines Vikings left Jacksonville on Thursday for Miami, where they will face Miami Northwestern in the Class 3A state championship at Florida International University. Kickoff is 7:30 p.m. Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><b>RELATED: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/sports\/2025\/12\/10\/beat-the-final-boss-raines-vikings-seek-redemption-in-state-championship-rematch-against-miami-northwestern\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/sports\/2025\/12\/10\/beat-the-final-boss-raines-vikings-seek-redemption-in-state-championship-rematch-against-miami-northwestern\/\"><b>\u2018Beat the final boss\u2019: Raines Vikings seek redemption in State Championship rematch against Miami Northwestern<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The stage is officially set for the final game of the season. An undefeated Raines team will take on Miami Northwestern, and fans came out to show their support in what they hope will be a state championship win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cWe love the team,\u201d Glenda McCoy said. \u201cThey are wonderful scholars and athletes and we want to be here to support them and let them know that we are backing them every step of the way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Jerry Battle said the Vikings need to go to Miami and handle their business. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cDon\u2019t go down there talking about fun,\u201d Battle said. \u201cGo down there, do what you got to do and come on back home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Zelda Phillips, an elder in the community, said she wants the student-athletes to know that they are supported. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cWe are looking forward to every exciting, every blessed moment knowing that things will come into play so we are looking to have a big, big shabang. Ichiban No. 1 Viking Nation,\u201d Phillips said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">News4JAX will be in Miami Friday, bringing updates on air and online.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Tune in to Varsity 4 at 10:45 p.m. for a sneak preview of how the Vikings are preparing for the game.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 The Raines Vikings left Jacksonville on Thursday for Miami, where they will face Miami Northwestern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":440828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,3188,723,18131,7310,192750,62,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-440827","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-high-school-football","12":"tag-jacksonville","13":"tag-raines-vikings","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115702739635076390","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}