Football Recap: Army-Navy Takes a Tough Playoff Loss + How To Watch

It's hard to turn regular season success into postseason wins, a fact Army-Navy can now relate to. They fell just short of the Christian Patriots by a score of 20-17 on Friday. The contest marked the Warriors' lowest-scoring game so far this season.

Although Army-Navy took the loss, they still got scores from Troy Samoa and Landon Schrom.

While Army-Navy came up short, they sure didn't make it easy for Christian: they limited their QB to completion percentage of just 30%. Sadly, that's becoming something of a trend for the Warriors; they were averaging 61.7%completion percentage earlier this season, but in their last three matchups they've fallen to only 61.7%.

Most of the squad's points came courtesy of special teams, who contributed 11 in total. The biggest highlight from special teams (and perhaps the team as a whole) came courtesy of Schrom, who ran a kickoff back for a touchdown.

Christian can attribute much of their success to Kaleb Runkle, who threw for 96 yards and two touchdowns, and also rushed for 48 yards. That's the most rushing yards Runkle has posted since back in October.

Warriors

Previous 5 Games

11/21/25 vs Christian	17-20
11/14/25 vs Patrick Henry	28-19
10/30/25 vs Classical Academy	36-6
10/24/25 vs Bishop's	28-21
10/10/25 vs Escondido Charter	41-2

The loss snapped Army-Navy's winning streak at four games and leaves them with a 9-2 record. As for Christian, the victory was the fourth in a row for them, bringing their record up to 6-7.

Army-Navy does not have any more games scheduled as of now. As for Christian, they wasted no time getting back out on the field and have already played their next contest, a 28-14 win against Central on the 29th.