Football Preview: Taylorsville Tartars vs. West Lauderdale Knights
The Taylorsville Tartars will venture away from home to take on the West Lauderdale Knights at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Taylorsville is no doubt hoping to put an end to a three-game streak of away losses.
Taylorsville is headed in fresh off scoring the most points they have all season. They lost 61-36 to Magee last Friday. While losing is never fun, the Tartars can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Mississippi football rankings (they are ranked 139th, while the Trojans are ranked 50th).
Meanwhile, West Lauderdale took their contest at home on Friday with ease, bagging a 42-14 victory over Leake Central. Considering the Knights have won three matchups by more than 25 points this season, Friday's blowout was nothing new.
Taylorsville's defeat dropped their record down to 1-4. As for West Lauderdale, the win made it two in a row for them and bumps their season record up to 3-3.
Taylorsville came up short against West Lauderdale in their previous meeting back in October of 2023, falling 35-24. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of West Lauderdale's K.P PEOPLES, who rushed for 191 yards and two touchdowns on only 14 carries. Now that Taylorsville knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? There's only one way to find out.
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