Football Preview: Noxapater Tigers vs. Eupora Eagles
The Noxapater Tigers will venture away from home to face off against the Eupora Eagles at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Noxapater will be strutting in after a victory while Eupora will be coming in after a loss.
Noxapater will roll into the match after a wild two-game stretch: they didn't score any points two weeks ago, then bounced right back against Okolona on Friday. Noxapater took their contest at home with ease, bagging a 56-6 win over Okolona. The Tigers pushed the score to 49-6 by the end of the third, a deficit the Chieftains had no chance of recovering from.
This one was won in the trenches and the lion's share of the credit has to go to Demarkus Mccully and he. Mccully rushed for 51 yards and a touchdown while he rushed for 51 yards and a touchdown.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Noxapater was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 514 rushing yards. That's the most rushing yards they've posted since back in September of 2023.
Meanwhile, Eupora entered their matchup against Water Valley on Friday without any home losses, but there's a first time for everything. Eupora fell just short of Water Valley by a score of 48-46. The defeat continues a trend for the Eagles in their matchups with the Blue Devils: they've now lost three in a row.
The victory got Noxapater back to even at 2-2. As for Eupora, their loss dropped their record down to an identical 2-2.
Noxapater might still be hurting after the 38-14 defeat they got from Eupora when the teams last played back in September of 2023. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Eupora's Peyton Perkins, who rushed for 51 yards and a touchdown, and also threw for 61 yards and a touchdown. Now that Noxapater knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? There's only one way to find out.
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