Football Preview: Colquitt County Packers vs. Collins Hill Eagles
The Colquitt County Packers have the luxury of staying home for another week and will welcome the Collins Hill Eagles at 7:30 p.m. on Friday. The two teams are strolling into their matchups after big wins in their previous games.
Colquitt County is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Friday. They took their game with ease, bagging a 48-20 win over Wheeler. With the Packers ahead 41-6 at the half, the match was all but over already.
The match pitted two dominant backs against one another in Day'Shawn Brown and Josiah Allen. Brown had a great game and rushed for 101 yards and three touchdowns on only 13 carries. Meanwhile, Allen did his best for the losing side, rushing for 104 yards.
Colquitt County was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 251 rushing yards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now rushed for at least 251 rushing yards in four consecutive contests.
Meanwhile, Collins Hill had already won three in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 30.3 points) and they went ahead and made it four on Friday. Everything went their way against the Lions as they made off with a 35-14 victory. Considering the Eagles have won five matchups by more than 20 points this season, Friday's blowout was nothing new.
Collins Hill's success was the result of a balanced attack that saw several players step up, but Cameron Jones led the charge by rushing for 142 yards and a touchdown on only 12 carries. The dominant performance gave Jones a new career-high in rushing yards.
Collins Hill didn't go easy on the quarterback and picked off two passes before the game was over. The picks came courtesy of Jeremiah Proctor and Cj Hector. Katrell Webb was another major factor on D, picking up two sacks and making eight total tackles (4.0 for loss).
Collins Hill pushed their record up to 10-1 with the win, which was their seventh straight at home dating back to last season. Those victories were due in large part to their defensive effort, having only surrendered 10.3 points per game. As for Colquitt County, they have been performing incredibly well recently as they've won six of their last seven games, which provided a nice bump to their 8-3 record this season.
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