Football Preview: Jacksboro Tigers vs. Holliday Eagles
The Jacksboro Tigers will host the Holliday Eagles at 7:30 p.m. on Friday. Each of these teams will be fighting to keep a win streak alive as Jacksboro comes in on three and Holliday on four.
Jacksboro's defense heads into the match hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Friday. They took their game with ease, bagging a 60-0 victory over Valley View. Given the Tigers' advantage in MaxPreps' Texas football rankings (they are ranked 359th, while the Eagles are ranked 1058th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Multiple players turned in solid performances to lead Jacksboro to victory, but perhaps none more so than Luis Balderama, who rushed for 186 yards and two touchdowns on only eight carries. The dominant performance gave Balderama a new career-high in rushing yards. The team also got some help courtesy of Wyatt Gavit, who threw for 268 yards and four touchdowns while completing 86.7% of his passes.
Jacksboro was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 317 rushing yards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now rushed for at least 193 rushing yards in nine consecutive contests.
Meanwhile, you can't lose the matchup if you win every quarter, and that was precisely Holliday's strategy against Henrietta on Friday. Given that consistent dominance, it should come as no surprise that Holliday blew Henrietta out of the water with a 56-7 final score. The match was all but wrapped up at the end of the third, by which point the Eagles had established a 43 point advantage.
Hunter Jones continued his habit of posting crazy stat lines, throwing for 259 yards and six touchdowns while completing 72.2% of his passes. He has been hot recently, having posted three or more passing touchdowns the last four times he's played. Steele Skinner was in the mix too, providing Holliday with a touchdown.
Jacksboro pushed their record up to 7-2 with the win, which was their third straight on the road. As for Holliday, they are on a roll lately: they've won five of their last six games, which provided a nice bump to their 7-2 record this season.
Jacksboro barely slipped by Holliday in their previous matchup back in November of 2023, winning 49-48. Does Jacksboro have another victory up their sleeve, or will Holliday turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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