PREP BEAT: News and notes on tonight’s games

Traffic conditions on I-20 will be a little iffy tonight for drivers coming back from high school games on the interstate. The DOT will be shutting down two lanes in Douglas County between Thornton Road and Lee Road from 9 p.m. tonight through 5 a.m. Monday. … After playing their first time “home” games at Campbell Middle School against Langston Hughes and Woodward Academy, Osborne will christen their new field tonight in a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Cobb County school . The Cardinals (1-2) will take on Hiram in their Region 5AAAA opener. It is interesting that every Cobb public school is getting SPLOST funds for new FieldTurf playing surfaces but Osborne’s was the only one that wasn’t complete by the start of the season. … “The Battle of Suwanee” takes places tonight at North Gwinnett as the Bulldogs will take on the Eagles of Collins Hill. It is the GPB Game of the Week, meaning it will be webcast on gpb.org, and represents the fourth North Gwinnett game this season to be broadcast by a local or national media outlet. Like many great rivalries in American sports, the two schools share a geographic proximity of sorts as the two schools are divided by less than seven miles. … The Southwest DeKalb-Marist game will feature two of the most accomplished current coaches in Georgia high school football as Buck Godfrey’s Panthers face Alan Chadwick’s War Eagles. Chadwick has won 283 games (sixth among active coaches) while Godfrey has won 252 (ninth). Chadwick-led Marist teams are 5-1 against Godfrey-coached SWD teams. … While the Benedictine-Savannah game tonight doesn’t look to move the meter on most fans throughout the state as both teams are winless, it is a rivalry full of history and tradition. In fact, it is the oldest rivalry in the state, being first contested in 1903. BC leads the all-time series 53-47-8. Both schools have losing streaks coming into the game as Savannah has not won since 2007, losing 26 in a row while Benedictine has dropped eight straight.