Football Preview: North Schuylkill Spartans vs. Blue Mountain Eagles
The North Schuylkill Spartans will challenge the Blue Mountain Eagles at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday. Expect the scorekeeper to be kept busy: if their previous games are any indication, the two teams will really light up the scoreboard.
North Schuylkill is headed into the contest after thoroughly thrashing Bangor: they outscored them in every quarter. North Schuylkill put the hurt on Bangor with a sharp 39-14 victory on Friday. Given the Spartans' advantage in MaxPreps' Pennsylvania football rankings (they are ranked 122nd, while the Slaters are ranked 387th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Meanwhile, Blue Mountain had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 46 points) and they went ahead and made it three on Friday. They claimed a resounding 55-14 win over the Indians on the road. Considering the Eagles have won four matches by more than 40 points this season, Friday's blowout was nothing new.
Blue Mountain's win was the result of several impressive offensive performances. One of the most notable came from Gaige Guers, who rushed for 78 yards and a touchdown. The dominant performance gave Guers a new career-high in rushing yards. Brody Foose was another key rusher, rushing for 79 yards and a touchdown.
He was just one part of a punishing run game: Blue Mountain was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 258 rushing yards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now rushed for at least 239 rushing yards in three consecutive games.
On the defensive side of the ball, a lot of the credit has to go to Blue Mountain's defense and their five sacks. Dylan Foose was especially locked on to Lehighton's QB and sacked him twice.
North Schuylkill now has a winning record of 4-3. As for Blue Mountain, they pushed their record up to 6-1 with the victory, which was their ninth straight on the road dating back to last season.
North Schuylkill and Blue Mountain were almost perfectly matched up in their previous meeting back in September of 2023, but North Schuylkill suffered an agonizing 18-17 defeat. Can North Schuylkill avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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