Football Preview: Cave City Cavemen vs. Southside Southerners
Cave City has enjoyed a three-game homestand but will soon have to dust off their road jerseys. They will face off against the Southside Southerners at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Neither Cave City nor Southside posted many points in their last games, so it might be the defenses that decide this one.
Cave City lost 32-6 to Blytheville on Friday. The Cavemen were down 32-0 at the end of the third quarter, which was just too much to recover from.
Meanwhile, Southside had already won three in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 20.3 points) and they went ahead and made it four on Friday. They had just enough and edged the Redskins out 10-7. The ten-point effort marked the Southerners' lowest-scoring contest of the season, but in the end it didn't matter.
Owen McLaughlin was a one-man wrecking crew for Southside as he rushed for 181 yards and a touchdown while picking up 7.5 yards per carry.
He was just one part of a punishing run game: Southside was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 229 rushing yards. That's the most rushing yards they've managed all season.
Cave City's defeat dropped their record down to 2-2. As for Southside, their win was their seventh straight on the road dating back to last season, which pushed their record up to 4-1.
Cave City was taken down by Southside 46-8 when the teams last played back in September of 2019. Can Cave City avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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