Football Preview: Barnesville Shamrocks vs. Wheelersburg Pirates
The Barnesville Shamrocks will stay at home for another week and welcome the Wheelersburg Pirates at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Both squads will be entering this one on the heels of a big victory.
If Barnesville beats Wheelersburg with 55 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. Barnesville breezed by Union Local to the tune of 55-14 on Friday. With the Shamrocks ahead 41-0 at the half, the matchup was all but over already.
Meanwhile, Wheelersburg had already won three in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 38.3 points) and they went ahead and made it four on Friday. They blew past the Senators 36-6.
Barnesville pushed their record up to 10-0 with the win, which was their fifth straight at home. As for Wheelersburg, they are on a roll lately: they've won six of their last seven games, which provided a nice bump to their 6-4 record this season.
Barnesville came up short against Wheelersburg in their previous meeting back in November of 2023, falling 26-13. Can Barnesville avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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