Football Preview: Haddam-Killingworth Cougars vs. Valley Regional/Old Lyme Warriors
Haddam-Killingworth has been away from home for three games now, but on Tuesday they'll finally make their return. They will welcome the Valley Regional/Old Lyme Warriors at 6:30 p.m. Haddam-Killingworth knows how to get points on the board -- the team has finished with 31 points or more in their past three contests -- so hopefully Valley Regional/Old Lyme likes a good challenge.
If Haddam-Killingworth beats Valley Regional/Old Lyme with 45 points on Tuesday, it's going to be the squad's new lucky number: they've won their past two games with that exact score. Haddam-Killingworth breezed by Coventry/Windham RVT/Bolton/Lyman Memorial to the tune of 45-0 last Friday. Considering the Cougars have won six matchups by more than 29 points this season, Friday's blowout was nothing new.
Meanwhile, Valley Regional/Old Lyme had already won three in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 18 points) and they went ahead and made it four on Thursday. They beat the Patriots by the very same score they won with in their prior game: 25-8. The Warriors pushed the score to 25-0 by the end of the third, a deficit the Patriots cut but never quite recovered from.
Valley Regional/Old Lyme was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 312 rushing yards. That's the most rushing yards they've managed all season.
Haddam-Killingworth's victory was their seventh straight on the road dating back to last season, which pushed their record up to 8-2. Those good results were due in large part to their defensive effort, having only surrendered 6.9 points per game. As for Valley Regional/Old Lyme, they are on a roll lately: they've won five of their last six matches, which provided a nice bump to their 7-4 record this season.
Haddam-Killingworth was able to grind out a solid win over Valley Regional/Old Lyme when the teams last played back in November of 2023, winning 20-7. Will Haddam-Killingworth repeat their success, or does Valley Regional/Old Lyme have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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