Football Preview: Poteet Pirates vs. Crandall Pirates
The Poteet Pirates will venture away from home to challenge the Crandall Pirates at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Poteet has a tough task ahead: they'll enter the match with 13 straight defeats, while Crandall will come in with four straight wins.
Poteet will head into Thursday's game ready to turn things around: they couldn't quite beat Wilson on Thursday, but the two-point margin was a huge improvement compared to the 35-point loss they were dealt two weeks ago. Poteet fell just short of Wilson by a score of 23-21.
Although Poteet took the loss, they still got scores from Dalarian Rose, Nile Rivers, and Marcus Thomas.
Poteet wouldn't let Wilson keep a hold of the ball as they managed to force six fumbles. It was a group effort, with six picking up one apiece.
Meanwhile, Crandall was fully in charge on Friday, breezing past Irving 54-7 at home. Given the Pirates' advantage in MaxPreps' Texas football rankings (they are ranked 281st, while the Tigers are ranked 956th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Poteet's defeat dropped their record down to 0-3. As for Crandall, they pushed their record up to 3-0 with that victory, which was their fifth straight at home dating back to last season.
Poteet suffered a grim 57-35 defeat to Crandall when the teams last played back in September of 2023. Can Poteet avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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