Football Recap: North Forney Falcons vs. Lake Ridge Eagles
Winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask North Forney). Everything went their way against the Lake Ridge Eagles on Friday as the North Forney Falcons made off with a 49-24 win. Given the Falcons' advantage in MaxPreps' Texas football rankings (they are ranked 194th, while the Eagles are ranked 465th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Legend Bey had a dynamite game for North Forney, rushing for 240 yards and three touchdowns on only 11 carries, while also throwing for 229 yards and a touchdown on only 19 passes. Bey's longest rush was for an incredible 70 yards. Kellen Sanders was another key player, rushing for 194 yards and two touchdowns while picking up 10.2 yards per carry.
He was just one part of a punishing run game: North Forney was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 501 rushing yards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now rushed for at least 248 rushing yards in three consecutive matchups.
Although Lake Ridge took the loss, they still got scores from Noel Butler, Tre Murphy, and Murphy.
The victory got North Forney back to even at 2-2. As for Lake Ridge, this is the second loss in a row for them and nudges their season record down to 1-3.
Both teams will have to hit the road in their upcoming games. North Forney will be staying on the road on Friday to face off against Forney at 7:30 p.m. One thing working in Forney's favor is that they have posted at least 31 points every time they've taken the field this season. As for Lake Ridge, they will have plenty of time to ponder what went wrong as they've got a bye scheduled next week. After, they'll take on Mansfield at 7:00 p.m. on October 3rd.
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