Football Preview: Penn Wood Patriots vs. Academy Park Knights
The Penn Wood Patriots will venture away from home to take on the Academy Park Knights at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday.
Last Saturday, Penn Wood came up short against William Penn and fell 15-6. While losing is never fun, the Patriots can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' football rankings in their respective home states (they are ranked 265th in Pennsylvania, while the Colonials are ranked 22nd in Delaware).
Penn Wood wouldn't let William Penn keep a hold of the ball as they managed to force two fumbles. Penn Wood can thank Antwane Beander and Haji Ali for forcing both of them. The dominant performance gave him a new career- in total yards.
Meanwhile, there's no place like home for Academy Park, who bounced back after a loss on the road two weeks ago. They breezed by Kensington at home to the tune of 64-6 on Saturday.
Penn Wood now has a losing record at 1-2. As for Academy Park, their win ended a three-game drought at home dating back to last season and bumped them up to 1-2.
Penn Wood suffered a grim 44-20 defeat to Academy Park in their previous meeting back in October of 2022. Thankfully for Penn Wood, Terrence Oliver (who rushed for 202 yards and four touchdowns while picking up 10.6 yards per carry, and also picked up 73 receiving yards and a touchdown) won't be suiting up this time. Will that be enough to change the final result? There's only one way to find out.
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