Football Preview: Wynot Blue Devils vs. Lyons-Decatur Northeast Cougars
The Wynot Blue Devils will take on the Lyons-Decatur Northeast Cougars at 3:00 p.m. on Friday. Both are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.
Wynot is headed in fresh off scoring the most points they have all season. They blew past Randolph 50-12 on the road on Friday. With the Blue Devils ahead 42-6 at the half, the match was all but over already.
Wynot got their win on the backs of several key players, but it was Devin Brummer out in front who threw for 284 yards and five touchdowns while completing 73.3% of his passes. Braylon Hans was Brummer's top target, picking up 156 receiving yards and three touchdowns.
Meanwhile, there's no place like home for Lyons-Decatur Northeast, who bounced back after a loss on the road last Friday. They breezed by Winside at home to the tune of 60-22 on Friday. The contest was all but wrapped up at the end of the third, by which point the Cougars had established a 34 point advantage.
Lyons-Decatur Northeast had a senior duo take command as Landen Cooper rushed for 175 yards and two touchdowns while picking up 9.7 yards per carry and Gavin Hardeman rushed for 131 yards and two touchdowns while picking up 7.7 yards per carry. That's the most rushing yards Cooper has posted since back in September of 2023. Another player making a difference was Masen Olsen, who rushed for 32 yards and a touchdown.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Lyons-Decatur Northeast was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 450 rushing yards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now rushed for at least 172 rushing yards in 12 consecutive games dating back to last season.
Lyons-Decatur Northeast's defense made their presence known, laying out Jayden Aschoff. seven times. The heavy lifting was done by Garret Vavra and Kaden Knaak, who racked up five sacks between them. Vavra is also on a roll when it comes to total tackles, as he's now made eight or more in the last five games he's played dating back to last season.
The victory got Wynot back to even at 2-2. As for Lyons-Decatur Northeast, their win ended a four-game drought at home dating back to last season and bumped them up to 2-2.
Wynot strolled past Lyons-Decatur Northeast when the teams last played back in October of 2015 by a score of 52-36. Does Wynot have another victory up their sleeve, or will Lyons-Decatur Northeast turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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