Football Preview: Blountstown Tigers vs. W.S. Neal Eagles
The Blountstown Tigers are taking a road trip to challenge the W.S. Neal Eagles at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Given that both suffered a loss in their last game, they both have a little extra motivation heading into this matchup.
Blountstown managed to keep up with Taylor County until halftime on Friday, but things quickly went downhill from there. Blountstown lost 27-6 to Taylor County. While losing is never fun, the Tigers can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Florida football rankings (they are ranked 301st, while the Bulldogs are ranked 135th).
Blountstown wouldn't let Taylor County keep a hold of the ball as they managed to force two fumbles. Blountstown can thank Zestan Raulerson and Christian Martin for forcing both of them.
Meanwhile, W.S. Neal was not able to break out of their rough patch on Friday as the team picked up their sixth straight defeat dating back to last season. They took a 49-36 hit to the loss column at the hands of Marianna. Despite running the score up even higher than they did in their prior game two weeks ago (32), the Eagles still had to take the loss.
Blountstown's loss ended a five-game streak of wins at home dating back to last season and dropped them to 2-1. As for W.S. Neal, their defeat dropped their record down to 0-4.
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