Football Preview: Lighthouse Private Christian Academy Stingrays vs. Cottondale Hornets
The Lighthouse Private Christian Academy Stingrays will challenge the Cottondale Hornets at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Both are strolling into their games after big wins in their previous games.
Lighthouse Private Christian Academy is headed in fresh off scoring the most points they have all season. They breezed by Bell Creek Academy on the road to the tune of 52-14 on Friday. The high-flying offensive performance was a huge turnaround for the Stingrays considering their eight-point performance the matchup before.
Meanwhile, Cottondale put another one in the bag on Friday to keep their perfect season alive. They claimed a resounding 64-22 victory over Freeport at home. The contest was pretty much decided by the half, when the score had already reached 56-0.
Cameron Odom was nothing short of spectacular: he threw for 184 yards and three touchdowns, and also rushed for 111 yards and a touchdown on only six carries. Tramond Collins was Odom's top target, picking up 81 receiving yards and a touchdown, while also rushing for 60 yards and a touchdown.
He was just one part of a punishing run game: Cottondale was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 355 rushing yards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now rushed for at least 267 rushing yards in 14 consecutive matches dating back to last season.
Cottondale wouldn't let Freeport keep a hold of the ball as they managed to force two fumbles. Cottondale can thank Wyatt Speers and Nick Heinemann for forcing both of them.
Lighthouse Private Christian Academy now has a winning record of 3-2. As for Cottondale, they pushed their record up to 3-0 with that win, which was their fifth straight at home dating back to last season.
Lighthouse Private Christian Academy was taken down by Cottondale 38-0 when the teams last played back in September of 2018. Thankfully for Lighthouse Private Christian Academy, Issac Brincefield (who rushed for 186 yards and two touchdowns while picking up 10.3 yards per carry) 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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