Football Preview: Kennedale Wildcats vs. Alvarado Indians
The Kennedale Wildcats will venture away from home to square off against the Alvarado Indians at 7:30 p.m. on Friday. Each of these teams will be fighting to keep a win streak alive as Kennedale comes in on five and Alvarado on nine.
Kennedale will head into Friday's contest hoping to keep the good times rolling: they only won by two when they last took the field, which might have inspired the 34-point they dealt Lake Worth on Friday. Kennedale never let Lake Worth onto the board and left with a 34-0 win. The Wildcats pushed the score to 20-0 by the end of the third, a deficit the Bullfrogs had little chance of recovering from.
Multiple players turned in solid performances to lead Kennedale to victory, but perhaps none more so than Riley Bingham, who rushed for 138 yards and a touchdown while picking up 7.3 yards per carry. Jackson Hammonds also deserves a shout-out for his two touchdowns.
Kennedale was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 354 rushing yards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now rushed for at least 197 rushing yards in ten consecutive games dating back to last season.
Kennedale didn't go easy on the quarterback and picked off two passes before the game was over. The picks came courtesy of Bingham and Trey Smith. Smith also defended three defended passes, which is notable because Kennedale is 4-2 when he posts at least three defended passes, but 1-2 otherwise. Another thorn in Lake Worth's side was William ?Mitchell? Mcbroom, who picked up a sack and made eight total tackles (3.0 for loss).
Meanwhile, Alvarado was fully in charge on Friday, breezing past Castleberry 62-7. Considering the Indians have won eight matchups by more than 20 points this season, Friday's blowout was nothing new.
Alvarado relied on the efforts of Demarcus Belton, who gained 256 total yards and five touchdowns, and Cardea Collier, who threw for 201 yards and three touchdowns while completing 88.9% of his passes. Belton showed off some serious burst, cutting through the defense on one rush that went for 63 yards. Another player making a difference was Lance Sansom, who rushed for 91 yards and a touchdown.
Alvarado pushed their record up to 9-0 with the victory, which was their seventh straight on the road dating back to last season. They've dominated over that stretch too, winning by an average of 36.9 points. As for Kennedale, they now have a winning record of 5-4.
Kennedale suffered a grim 49-27 defeat to Alvarado when the teams last played back in November of 2023. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Collier, who rushed for 146 yards and two touchdowns while picking up 9.1 yards per carry, and also threw for 223 yards and four touchdowns on only 19 passes. Now that Kennedale knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? There's only one way to find out.
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