Football Preview: Owen-Withee Blackhawks vs. Port Edwards Blackhawks
Owen-Withee has won seven straight games at home (dating back to last season), while Port Edwards has won seven straight on the road, but those streaks won't matter much on Friday. The Owen-Withee Blackhawks will welcome the Port Edwards Blackhawks at 7:00 p.m. Owen-Withee is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 54.5 points per game this season.
Owen-Withee is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Wisconsin's top teams: Gilman, who was ranked third in their home state at the time (Owen-Withee was ranked first). Owen-Withee narrowly escaped with a win as the squad sidled past Gilman 24-22. The 24-point effort marked the Blackhawks' lowest-scoring contest of the season, but in the end it didn't matter.
Dominic Sherwood went supernova for Owen-Withee, rushing for 139 yards and two touchdowns while picking up 7.7 yards per carry. Those 139 rushing yards gave Sherwood a new career-high.
He was just one part of a punishing run game: Owen-Withee was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 331 rushing yards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now rushed for at least 261 rushing yards in eight consecutive matchups.
Owen-Withee didn't go easy on the quarterback and picked off three passes before the game was over. It was truly a group effort as Sherwood, Colin Fritz, and Tim Stock picked up one apiece.
Meanwhile, Port Edwards was able to grind out a solid victory over Tri-County on Friday, taking the game 38-26.
Owen-Withee's win bumped their record up to 8-0. As for Port Edwards, they are on a roll lately: they've won four of their last five games, which provided a nice bump to their 7-2 record this season.
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