Football Preview: New Diana Eagles vs. Buffalo Bison
The New Diana Eagles will look to defend their home field on Friday against the Buffalo Bison at 7:30 p.m. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (New Diana has seven straight victories, Buffalo has five straight defeats), but none of that matters once you're on the field.
New Diana is headed into the matchup after thoroughly thrashing Troup: they outscored them in every quarter. New Diana put the hurt on Troup with a sharp 35-11 win on Friday. Fans of the Eagles have seen this all before: every one of the games they've played this season has ended in a blowout of 20+ points.
New Diana found their leader in underclassman Dejuan Johnson, who rushed for 140 yards and two touchdowns on only 11 carries, and also threw for 98 yards and a touchdown. Johnson is on a roll when it comes to rushing touchdowns, as he's now punched in two or more in the last three games he's played dating back to last season. Backing up that air attack was Davyon Mapps, who rushed for 109 yards.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, New Diana was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 262 rushing yards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now rushed for at least 262 rushing yards in seven consecutive matches.
Meanwhile, Buffalo didn't have quite enough to beat Winona on Friday and fell 46-44. Despite running the score up even higher than they did in their prior game last Friday (42), the Bison still had to take the loss.
New Diana pushed their record up to 7-0 with the victory, which was their fifth straight on the road dating back to last season. As for Buffalo, their loss dropped their record down to 1-6.
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