Football Preview: Mt. Pleasant Tigers vs. Whitehouse Wildcats
The Mt. Pleasant Tigers will take on the Whitehouse Wildcats at 7:30 p.m. on Friday. Mt. Pleasant will come in still looking for their first win of the season.
Last Friday, Mt. Pleasant came up short against Sulphur Springs and fell 24-14. While losing is never fun, the Tigers can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Texas football rankings (they are ranked 477th, while the Wildcats are ranked 227th).
Even if they lost, Mt. Pleasant's defense still kept up the pressure with four sacks. Cooper Rider was especially locked on to Sulphur Springs' QB and sacked him twice. Mt. Pleasant got some further help from Emmanuel Harris: he picked up a sack, made ten total tackles, and made ten total tackles.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Whitehouse). They blew past Paris 55-35 on Friday. With Whitehouse ahead 28-7 at the half, the match was all but over already.
Carter Mclaughlin was his usual excellent self, rushing for 200 yards and three touchdowns on only 15 carries. The dominant performance gave him a new career-high in rushing yards. Another player making a difference was Jackson Gary, who threw for 153 yards and three touchdowns.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Whitehouse was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 312 rushing yards. That's the most rushing yards they've managed all season.
Mt. Pleasant's defeat dropped their record down to 0-4. As for Whitehouse, the win got them back to even at 2-2.
Mt. Pleasant was taken down by Whitehouse 42-14 in their previous meeting back in October of 2023. Thankfully for Mt. Pleasant, Jakob Carey (who rushed for 137 yards and four touchdowns while picking up 8.6 yards per carry, and also threw for 147 yards and a touchdown on only 14 passes) won't be suiting up this time. Will that be enough to change the final result? There's only one way to find out.
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