Tonight, Friday, has finally arrived for the Cordova High School football team.

The Lancers will open the season against Rio Americano at Lancers Stadium. Kickoff is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. The Rio Americano-Cordova junior varsity football game will play prior, and is slated to start at 5:15 p.m.

The contest against the Raiders is the first of three pre-season home games for Cordova. But next Friday, the Lancers trek to San Joaquin County to play at Chavez of Stockton.

After next week’s contest, Cordova will host Rio Linda (Sept. 9th) and Vista del Lago of Folsom in a battle of schools in the Folsom-Cordova Unified District on Sept. 16th.

After the Vista del Lago contest, the Lancers will hit the road again for their final non-league game, at Foothill on Sept. 23. Then the Lancers will have the bye week. Cordova starts Sierra Valley Conference action on Friday, Oct. 7th when Galt pays a visit to Lancers Stadium.

The Lancers play two of their five conference games at home; the other will be hosting El Dorado on Oct. 21st. Cordova will play at Union Mine (Oct. 14th), Liberty Ranch of Galt (Oct. 28th) and closes out the regular season at SVC rival Rosemont on Nov. 4th.

Last Saturday, Cordova football fans had a chance to see the varsity and junior varsity football teams in action in a controlled scrimmage against the Capital Christian grid squads.

Last year, Cordova went 5-5 overall and 1-4 in the SVC.