Football Preview: West Perry Mustangs vs. Upper Dauphin Area Trojans
The West Perry Mustangs will venture away from home to square off against the Upper Dauphin Area Trojans 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.
Last Friday, everything went West Perry's way against Boiling Springs as West Perry made off with a 44-21 win. Given the Mustangs' advantage in MaxPreps' Pennsylvania football rankings (they are ranked 142nd, while the Bubblers are ranked 351st), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Meanwhile, Upper Dauphin Area came into Thursday's matchup having lost four straight, but that streak is now in the rearview. They breezed by Halifax on the road to the tune of 42-8 on Thursday. The Trojans pushed the score to 42-0 by the end of the third, a deficit the Wildcats cut but never quite recovered from.
Upper Dauphin Area can attribute much of their success to Tyler Erdley, who gained 117 total yards and a touchdown, and Aidan Bingaman, who threw for 127 yards and two touchdowns on only nine passes.
The victory made it two in a row for West Perry and bumps their season record up to 2-0. As for Upper Dauphin Area, the win also got them back to even at 1-1.
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