Football Preview: Shawnee Mission East Lancers vs. Olathe North Eagles
The Shawnee Mission East Lancers will venture away from home to challenge the Olathe North Eagles at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Expect the scorekeeper to be kept busy: if their previous games are any indication, the two teams will really light up the scoreboard.
If Shawnee Mission East beats Olathe North with 35 points on Friday, it's going to be the team's new lucky number: they've won their past two matches with that exact score. Everything went Shawnee Mission East's way against Shawnee Mission South on Friday as Shawnee Mission East made off with a 35-14 victory. The score at the end of the third wound up being the final score as the Lancers just coasted through the last quarter.
Jack Reeves went supernova for Shawnee Mission East, rushing for 125 yards and a touchdown on only 14 carries, while also throwing for 116 yards and two touchdowns on only seven passes. That's the most rushing yards Reeves has posted since back in September of 2023. Another back making a difference was Nate Phillips, who rushed for 73 yards and two touchdowns.
He was just one part of a punishing run game: Shawnee Mission East was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 231 rushing yards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now rushed for at least 181 rushing yards in three consecutive matchups.
Meanwhile, Olathe North faced Lawrence in a battle between two of the state's top teams on Friday. Olathe North walked away with a 42-34 win over Lawrence.
Shawnee Mission East now has a winning record of 2-1. As for Olathe North, they pushed their record up to 1-2 with the victory, which was their seventh straight at home dating back to last season.
Shawnee Mission East was dealt a bruising 56-14 defeat at the hands of Olathe North in their previous meeting back in October of 2021. That game was all but decided by halftime, at which point Shawnee Mission East was down 48-0.
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