Football Preview: Young Men's Leadership Academy vs. Karnes City Badgers
Young Men's Leadership Academy will venture away from home to face off against the Karnes City Badgers at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Young Men's Leadership Academy's offense hasn't had much luck over their past three games, but Friday's matchup will give them a chance to turn things around.
Young Men's Leadership Academy will head out to face Karnes City after giving up their first home loss of the season on Friday. Young Men's Leadership Academy was outmatched by Dilley at home and fell 35-0. That's two games in a row now that Young Men's Leadership Academy has lost by exactly 35 points.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Karnes City). They breezed by Natalia on the road to the tune of 50-14 on Friday. The match was pretty much decided by the half, when the score had already reached 29-0.
Karnes City's success was the result of a balanced attack that saw several players step up, but Israel Soto led the charge by rushing for 112 yards and two touchdowns on only seven carries, while also picking up 84 receiving yards and a touchdown. Soto got the majority of those receiving yards when he pulled down a pass and took off for a gain of 58 yards. Aiden Schmidt was another key player, rushing for 129 yards and two touchdowns.
He was just one part of a punishing run game: Karnes City was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 317 rushing yards. That's the most rushing yards they've posted since the start of last season.
Karnes City wouldn't let Natalia keep a hold of the ball as they managed to force two fumbles. Karnes City can thank Schmidt and Brock Wood for forcing both of them.
Young Men's Leadership Academy's defeat dropped their record down to 1-4. As for Karnes City, their victory bumped their record up to 4-1.
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