Football Game Preview: St. Augustine Yellow Jackets vs. Bartram Trail Bears

The St. Augustine Yellow Jackets will take on the Bartram Trail Bears at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday. The two teams are strolling into their matchups after big wins in their previous games.

St. Augustine is headed in fresh off scoring the most points they have all season. They simply couldn't be stopped on Wednesday as they easily beat Ribault 52-14. Perhaps unsurprisingly given the team's high-flying offense, the game also marked the team's biggest victory of the season.

Meanwhile, Bartram Trail had already won seven in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 9.6 points) and they went ahead and made it eight on Tuesday. They claimed a resounding 34-7 win over the Broncos. Given the Bears' advantage in MaxPreps' Florida football rankings (they are ranked 66th, while the Broncos are ranked 225th) , the win wasn't entirely unexpected.

Bartram Trail's win came from a few key players St. Augustine will need to keep an eye on. One of the most notable was Kaila Pierce, who threw for 300 yards and five TDs while completing 75% of her passes. Those 300 passing yards gave her a new career-high. Lily Holden was Pierce's top target, picking up 152 receiving yards and a pair of scores.

Bartram Trail's victory was their seventh straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 10-4. The road wins came thanks in part to their defensive effort, having only surrendered 9.6 points on average over those games. As for St. Augustine, their victory ended a four-game drought at home and bumped them up to 4-5.

St. Augustine couldn't quite get it done against Bartram Trail when the teams last played back in March as they fell 25-14. Can the Yellow Jackets avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.