Rejoice, local football fans. The Gilman-DeMatha game is on for today at 1 p.m. It will be played, as scheduled, at Gilman.

Gilman athletic director Tim Holley said this morning that he and several others, including the school's headmaster and football coach Biff Poggi, took a walk on the field for about an hour around 7 a.m. and determined that while there was still plenty of water there, the game could go on.

"[We] decided that the field, while not in ideal condition, was in playable condition," Holley said around 9 a.m. "If it was a league game, we would definitely play."

Holley said they're very concerned about the condition of the field after today's game, one reason he wasn't optimistic on Friday, but that both coaches wanted to play. Poggi felt very strongly that the game needed to be played on Gilman's campus, as scheduled.

"I'm very supportive of that," Holley said.

And so the game will be played. See you at 1 p.m.

-- Jeff Seidel