Football Preview: Keytesville Tigers vs. Slater Wildcats
The Keytesville Tigers have the luxury of staying home for another week and will welcome the Slater Wildcats at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Hopefully Keytesville focused on turnovers this week as the team gave up five on Friday.
It's never fun to lose, and it's even less fun to lose 60-26, which was the final score in Keytesville's tilt against Schuyler County. That's two games in a row now that the Tigers have lost by exactly 34 points.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Slater). They breezed by Santa Fe at home to the tune of 82-0 on Friday. Perhaps unsurprisingly given the team's high-flying offense, the game also marked the team's biggest victory of the season.
Slater got their win on the backs of several key players, but it was Chase Hemeyer out in front who rushed for 124 yards and four touchdowns on only 11 carries, and also threw for 97 yards and three touchdowns while completing 80% of his passes. The dominant performance gave Hemeyer a new career-high in rushing yards. Brandon Terrill was Hemeyer's top target, picking up 51 receiving yards and two touchdowns, while also rushing for 64 yards and a touchdown.
He was just one part of a punishing run game: Slater was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 326 rushing yards. The team's really been improving in that area: they've now improved they're rushing yard total in three consecutive games.
Keytesville's defeat dropped their record down to 0-3. As for Slater, their victory bumped their record up to 3-1.
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