Football Preview: New Diana Eagles vs. Jacksonville Fightin' Indians
The New Diana Eagles will take on the Jacksonville Fightin' Indians at 6:55 p.m. on Friday. One thing working in New Diana's favor is that they have posted at least 31 points every time they've taken the field this season.
New Diana is headed into the contest after thoroughly thrashing Elkhart: they outscored them in every quarter. Given that consistent dominance, it should come as no surprise that New Diana blew Elkhart out of the water with a 76-24 final score. The game was pretty much decided by the half, when the score had already reached 49-24.
Dejuan Johnson continued his habit of posting crazy stat lines, throwing for 339 yards and six touchdowns while completing 82.4% of his passes, and also rushing for 107 yards and two touchdowns on only eight carries. He has been hot recently, having posted three or more passing touchdowns the last three times he's played. Jaiydyn Johnson also helped out with an impressive 155 receiving yards.
Meanwhile, Jacksonville was not able to break out of their rough patch two weeks ago as the team picked up their eighth straight loss. They had to suffer through a 48-7 loss at the hands of Texas. While losing is never fun, the Fightin' Indians can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Texas football rankings (they are ranked 633rd, while the Tigers are ranked 14th).
Jacksonville wouldn't let Texas keep a hold of the ball as they managed to force two fumbles. Jacksonville can thank Michael Miles and Josh Gaskin for forcing both of them.
New Diana pushed their record up to 10-0 with the victory, which was their fifth straight at home. Those good results were due in large part to their defensive effort, having only surrendered 9.0 points per game. As for Jacksonville, their defeat dropped their record down to 1-9.
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