Football Preview: Battlefield Bobcats vs. Freedom Eagles
Battlefield has gone 3-0 against Freedom recently and they'll look to pad the win column further on Friday. The Battlefield Bobcats will be playing in front of their home fans against the Freedom Eagles at 7:00 p.m. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Battlefield has four straight wins, Freedom has six straight defeats), but none of that matters once you're on the field.
If Battlefield beats Freedom with 42 points on Friday, it's going to be the team's new lucky number: they've won their past two matches with that exact score. Battlefield blew past Woodbridge 42-7 on the road on Friday. Fans of the Bobcats have seen this all before: every one of the games they've played this season has ended in a blowout of 20+ points.
Calum O?Shea was his usual excellent self, rushing for 207 yards and four touchdowns on only 11 carries. His longest rush was for an impressive 62 yards, which helps to explain his lofty yards per carry total. The team also got some help courtesy of Sage Davis, who rushed for 125 yards and a touchdown on only 14 carries.
On the other side of the ball, a lot of the credit has to go to Battlefield's defense and their six sacks. Cameron Binkowski was especially locked on to Woodbridge's QB and sacked him three times. Binkowski also set a new season high mark in sacks with three.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Battlefield was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 397 rushing yards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now rushed for at least 163 rushing yards in four consecutive matchups.
Meanwhile, Friday just wasn't the day for Freedom's offense. They were beaten by Riverside 39-0 on Friday.
Battlefield pushed their record up to 4-0 with the victory, which was their eighth straight on the road dating back to last season. As for Freedom, their loss dropped their record down to 0-4.
Everything came up roses for Battlefield against Freedom in their previous meeting back in September of 2023 as the squad secured a 40-0 win. Will Battlefield repeat their success, or does Freedom have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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