Football Preview: Mt. Gilead Indians vs. Fredericktown Freddies
Mt. Gilead is 1-9 against Fredericktown since September of 2014 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Friday. The Mt. Gilead Indians will face off against the Fredericktown Freddies at 7:00 p.m.
Mt. Gilead is coming in off a wild two-game stretch: after soaring to 32 points last Friday, they were much more limited against Danville on Friday. They took a 20-8 hit to the loss column at the hands of the Blue Devils. While losing is never fun, the Indians can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Ohio football rankings (they are ranked 504th, while the Blue Devils are ranked 249th).
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Fredericktown). They took their matchup at home on Friday with ease, bagging a 45-18 win over Cardington-Lincoln. The Freddies pushed the score to 32-12 by the end of the third, a deficit the Pirates had little chance of recovering from.
Blake Sipes continued his habit of posting crazy stat lines, rushing for 268 yards and four touchdowns while picking up 15.8 yards per carry. The dominant performance gave him a new career-high in rushing yards. The team also got some help courtesy of Elijah Roush, who rushed for 90 yards and two touchdowns.
He was just one part of a punishing run game: Fredericktown was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 461 rushing yards. That's the most rushing yards they've managed all season.
Mt. Gilead's defeat dropped their record down to 2-2. As for Fredericktown, the victory also got them back to even at 2-2.
Mt. Gilead ended up a good deal behind Fredericktown in their previous meeting back in September of 2023, losing 26-7. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Sipes, who rushed for 103 yards and a touchdown, and also threw for 126 yards and a touchdown on only ten passes. Now that Mt. Gilead knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? Check MaxPreps.com after the match to find out.
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