Football Preview: Maplewood Panthers vs. White House-Heritage Patriots
The Maplewood Panthers will challenge the White House-Heritage Patriots at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Both come into the game bolstered by wins in their previous matches.
Maplewood's defense heads into the contest hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Thursday. They had just enough and edged RePublic out 2-0.
Meanwhile, White House-Heritage hadn't done well against Fairview recently (they were 0-5 in their previous five matchups), but they didn't let the past get in their way on Friday. White House-Heritage walked away with a 21-14 win over Fairview.
White House-Heritage relied on the efforts of Xavier Murray, who threw for 224 yards and two touchdowns while completing 83.3% of his passes, and Cale Hunt, who rushed for 108 yards and a touchdown. That's the most rushing yards Hunt has posted since back in September. 81 of Murray's passing yards were hauled in by Aric Lopez.
Maplewood's victory bumped their record up to 4-5. As for White House-Heritage, they are on a roll lately: they've won six of their last seven matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 7-3 record this season.
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