Football Preview: Jasper County Hurricanes vs. Utopian Academy for the Arts
The Jasper County Hurricanes will head out to face off against Utopian Academy for the Arts at 7:30 p.m. on Friday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Jasper County has four straight victories, Utopian Academy for the Arts has seven straight defeats), but none of that matters once you're on the field.
Jasper County is headed in fresh off scoring the most points they have all season. They blew past Towers, posting a 43-8 win at home. The high-flying offensive performance was a huge turnaround for the Hurricanes considering their ten-point performance the match before.
Jalen Stewart continued his habit of posting crazy stat lines, rushing for 145 yards and two touchdowns while picking up 8.1 yards per carry. The dominant performance gave him a new career-high in rushing yards.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Jasper County was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 262 rushing yards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now rushed for at least 189 rushing yards in four consecutive games.
Meanwhile, it's never fun to lose, and it's even less fun to lose 65-6, which was the final score in Utopian Academy for the Arts' tilt against Social Circle on Friday.
Jasper County pushed their record up to 4-1 with the victory, which was their third straight at home. As for Utopian Academy for the Arts, their loss dropped their record down to 0-5.
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