Football Preview: Cathedral Green Wave vs. Oak Forest Academy Yellowjackets
Cathedral is 0-4 against Oak Forest Academy since October of 2014 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Friday. The Cathedral Green Wave will head out to challenge the Oak Forest Academy Yellowjackets at 7:00 p.m.
Cathedral is coming in off a wild two-game stretch: after soaring to 34 points last Friday, they were much more limited against Hartfield Academy on Friday. They had to suffer through a 49-0 loss at the hands of the Hawks. While losing is never fun, the Green Wave can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Mississippi football rankings (they are ranked 171st, while the Hawks are ranked 16th).
Meanwhile, you can't lose the match if you win every quarter, and that was precisely Oak Forest Academy's strategy against Brookhaven Academy on Friday. Given that consistent dominance, it should come as no surprise that Oak Forest Academy blew Brookhaven Academy out of the water with a 42-0 final score. The Yellowjackets pushed the score to 28-0 by the end of the third, a deficit the Cougars had little chance of recovering from.
Cathedral's defeat dropped their record down to 2-2. As for Oak Forest Academy, they now have a winning record of 2-1.
Cathedral was dealt a bruising 46-14 loss at the hands of Oak Forest Academy when the teams last played back in September of 2023. Can Cathedral avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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