Football Preview: McKinney Lions vs. Plano West Wolves
The McKinney Lions will face off against the Plano West Wolves at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday. McKinney is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 30.4 points per game this season.
It was a proper cat-fight when McKinney faced off against Princeton on Friday. McKinney claimed a resounding 62-27 win over Princeton on the road. Given the Lions' advantage in MaxPreps' Texas football rankings (they are ranked 118th, while the Panthers are ranked 433rd), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
The match pitted two dominant signal callers against one another in Jeremiah Daoud and Marcus Flowers. Daoud had a great game and threw for 429 yards and six touchdowns while completing 71.4% of his passes. Meanwhile, Flowers did his best for the losing side, throwing for 218 yards and four touchdowns.
McKinney didn't go easy on the quarterback and picked off two passes before the game was over. The picks came courtesy of Jabari Woods and Ja'Bree Bickham. Another thorn in Princeton's side was Riley Pettijohn, who picked up two sacks, made ten total tackles (3.0 for loss), and defended two passes.
Meanwhile, Plano West was not able to break out of their rough patch on Friday as the team picked up their 11th straight defeat dating back to last season. They lost 35-14 to Plano. For those keeping track at home, that's the biggest loss the Wolves have suffered against the Wildcats since November 3, 2017.
McKinney now has a winning record of 3-2. As for Plano West, their defeat dropped their record down to 0-6.
McKinney strolled past Plano West when the teams last played back in October of 2019 by a score of 29-14. Will McKinney repeat their success, or does Plano West have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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