Football Preview: Wallenpaupack Area Buckhorns vs. Honesdale Hornets
Wallenpaupack Area has gone 9-1 against Honesdale recently and they'll look to pad the win column further on Friday. The Wallenpaupack Area Buckhorns are headed away from home for the first time to take on the Honesdale Hornets at 7:00 p.m. Keep an eye on the score for this one: the two teams posted some lofty point totals in their previous games.
Having struggled with ten defeats in a row dating back to last season, Wallenpaupack Area finally turned things around against East Stroudsburg North on Friday. They blew past the Timberwolves 36-14. With the Buckhorns ahead 22-0 at the half, the match was all but over already.
Meanwhile, everything went Honesdale's way against Pocono Mountain East on Friday as Honesdale made off with a 43-20 win. The Hornets pushed the score to 43-13 by the end of the third, a deficit the Cardinals cut but never quite recovered from.
Honesdale can attribute much of their success to Aiden Collins, who rushed for 60 yards, and also threw for 97 yards and a touchdown. Kobe White got in on the action too, returning a kick for a touchdown.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Honesdale was moving up and down the field and finished the game with 450 total yards. They easily outclassed their opponents in that department as Pocono Mountain East only gained 345.
The victory got Wallenpaupack Area back to even at 1-1. As for Honesdale, the win made it two in a row for them and bumps their season record up to 2-0.
Wallenpaupack Area strolled past Honesdale when the teams last played back in August of 2023 by a score of 23-6. Will Wallenpaupack Area repeat their success, or does Honesdale have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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