Football Game Preview: McDonald Plays at Home

By Team Reports Sep 3, 2024, 3:00am

Football Preview: McDonald Blue Devils vs. Clearview Clippers

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After starting their season with two straight games on the road, McDonald is finally coming home. They will look to take advantage of their home-field as they take on the Clearview Clippers at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. The two teams are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.

If McDonald beats Clearview with 35 points on Friday, it's going to be the squad's new lucky number: they've won their past two matches with that exact score. McDonald breezed by Columbiana on the road to the tune of 35-3 on Friday.

Meanwhile, Clearview humbled Lakewood with a 40-12 victory. Given the Clippers' advantage in MaxPreps' Ohio football rankings (they are ranked 202nd, while the Rangers are ranked 466th), the result on Friday wasn't entirely unexpected.

Multiple players turned in solid performances to lead Clearview to victory, but perhaps none more so than Cy Christensen, who threw for 223 yards and three touchdowns while completing 83.3% of his passes. Kameron Williams helped Christensen out on the ground, rushing for 103 yards and a touchdown on only 11 carries.

Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Clearview was moving up and down the field and finished the game with 530 total yards. That's the most total yards they've posted since was before the start of last season.

McDonald's win bumped their record up to 2-0. As for Clearview, they pushed their record up to 2-0 with that victory, which was their ninth straight at home dating back to last season.

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