Football Preview: Waterloo Bulldogs vs. Chester Yellowjackets
The Waterloo Bulldogs will head out on the road to take on the Chester Yellowjackets at 12:00 p.m. on Saturday. Each of these teams will be fighting to keep a win streak alive as Waterloo comes in on four and Chester on eight.
Waterloo is headed in fresh off scoring the most points they have all season. They breezed by Mascoutah at home to the tune of 56-28 on Friday. Given the Bulldogs' advantage in MaxPreps' Illinois football rankings (they are ranked 81st, while the Indians are ranked 224th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Meanwhile, you can't lose the matchup if you win every quarter, and that was precisely Chester's strategy against Red Bud on Friday. Given that consistent dominance, it should come as no surprise that Chester blew Red Bud out of the water with a 44-7 final score. The match was all but wrapped up at the end of the third, by which point the Yellowjackets had established a 34 point advantage.
Zain Al-Jassim was his usual excellent self, throwing for 265 yards and three touchdowns while completing 91.7% of his passes, and also punching in a touchdown on the ground. The dominant performance also gave him a new career-high in rushing yards. Another player making a difference was Kolton Jany, who gained 138 total yards and a touchdown.
Chester didn't go easy on the quarterback and picked off two passes before the game was over. In fact, those interceptions all came courtesy of defensive juggernaut Devante Palacio.
Waterloo pushed their record up to 7-1 with the victory, which was their fourth straight at home. As for Chester, their win bumped their record up to 8-0.
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