Football Preview: Royal Falcons vs. Columbia Roughnecks
The Royal Falcons are taking a road trip to challenge the Columbia Roughnecks at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Expect the scorekeeper to be kept busy: if their previous games are any indication, both will really light up the scoreboard.
Royal is headed in fresh off scoring the most points they have all season. They snuck past Sweeny with a 55-49 win on Friday. The victory made it back-to-back wins for the Falcons.
A big part of Royal's victory came down to the chemistry between Mason Hartwell and his top target Noah Lasker. Hartwell rushed for 65 yards and two touchdowns while Lasker rushed for 125 yards and four touchdowns on only 13 carries. Kj Keller also helped with two touchdowns in total.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Royal was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 202 rushing yards. That's the most rushing yards they've posted since back in October of 2023.
Meanwhile, Columbia entered their tilt with Harmony School of Innovation on Friday with two consecutive wins but they'll enter their next game with three. They breezed by the Wildcats on the road to the tune of 56-0. That looming 56-0 mark stands out as the most commanding margin for the Roughnecks yet this season.
Columbia's success was spearheaded by the efforts of Mudassir Abdullah, who rushed for 134 yards and a touchdown on only six carries, and Noah Wallace, who rushed for 69 yards and two touchdowns. Abdullah's longest rush was for an impressive 58 yards, which helps to explain his lofty yards per carry total.
Columbia wouldn't let Harmony School of Innovation keep a hold of the ball as they managed to force two fumbles. Columbia can thank Korbyn Faulkner and Robert Phillips for forcing both of them.
Royal now has a winning record of 3-2. As for Columbia, their record is now 4-2.
Royal and Columbia were almost perfectly matched up when the teams last played back in November of 2023, but Royal suffered an agonizing 33-32 defeat. Thankfully for Royal, Blake Osteen (who rushed for 90 yards and two touchdowns on only ten carries) won't be suiting up this time. Will that be enough to change the final result? There's only one way to find out.
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