Football Preview: Bentonville West Wolverines vs. Fayetteville Bulldogs
The Bentonville West Wolverines are taking a road trip to take on the Fayetteville Bulldogs at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Bentonville West will come in still looking for their first win of the season.
Bentonville West is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another highly-ranked state team: Muskogee, who was ranked ninth at the time (Bentonville West was ranked 20th). Bentonville West was just a hair shy of victory two weeks ago and fell 49-48 to Muskogee. Despite running the score up even higher than they did in their prior game on September 6th (38), the Wolverines still had to take the loss.
Bentonville West might have lost, but man, John Thompson was a machine: he threw for 426 yards and six touchdowns, and also rushed for 43 yards and a touchdown. The dominant performance gave Thompson a new career-high in rushing yards. Bentonville West also got a significant boost from Braden Nash, who ran away from the competition to the tune of 81 yards.
Meanwhile, after a string of 15 wins dating back to last season, Fayetteville's good fortune finally ran out on Friday. They and Texas were almost perfectly matched up, but Fayetteville suffered a 55-54 defeat. The loss was the Bulldogs' first of the season.
Bentonville West's loss ended a three-game streak of away wins dating back to last season and brought them to 0-3. As for Fayetteville, their defeat was their first of the season and makes their record 2-1.
Bentonville West was dealt a bruising 55-21 loss at the hands of Fayetteville when the teams last played back in September of 2023. That contest was all but decided by halftime, at which point Bentonville West was down 28-7.
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