Football Preview: Tupper Lake Lumberjacks vs. Morrisville-Eaton Warriors
The Tupper Lake Lumberjacks will venture away from home to challenge the Morrisville-Eaton Warriors at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Tupper Lake is coming into the matchup hot, having won their last three games.
Tupper Lake is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of New York's top teams: Thousand Islands, who was ranked 21st in their home state at the time (Tupper Lake was ranked 11th). Tupper Lake really took it to Thousand Islands for the full four quarters, racking up a 46-0 victory on the road. The high-flying offensive performance was a huge turnaround for the Lumberjacks considering their two-point performance the game before.
Tupper Lake had a senior duo take command as Wyatt Godin rushed for 66 yards and three touchdowns and Brayden Shannon rushed for 114 yards and a touchdown on only six carries. The dominant performance gave Godin a new career-high in rushing yards.
Meanwhile, after soaring to 48 points the game before, Morrisville-Eaton was a bit more limited in their match on Friday. They were outmatched by Frankfort-Schuyler on the road and fell 46-6. The loss was the Warriors' first of the season.
Even though they lost, Morrisville-Eaton was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 258 rushing yards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now rushed for at least 207 rushing yards in three consecutive contests.
Tupper Lake's win bumped their record up to 3-0. As for Morrisville-Eaton, their loss ended a five-game streak of away wins dating back to last season and brought them to 2-1.
Tupper Lake suffered a grim 22-0 defeat to Morrisville-Eaton in their previous matchup back in September of 2019. Can Tupper Lake avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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