Football Preview: Wynot Blue Devils vs. Lyons-Decatur Northeast Cougars
The Wynot Blue Devils will take on the Lyons-Decatur Northeast Cougars at 3:00 p.m. on Friday. The two teams are strolling into their games after big wins in their previous games.
Wynot is headed in fresh off scoring the most points they have all season. They breezed by Randolph on the road to the tune of 50-12 on Friday. The match was pretty much decided by the half, when the score had already reached 42-6.
Wynot's win was a true team effort, with many players turning in solid performances. Perhaps the best among them was Devin Brummer, who threw for 284 yards and five touchdowns while completing 73.3% of his passes. Braylon Hans was Brummer's top target, picking up 156 receiving yards and three touchdowns.
Meanwhile, there's no place like home for Lyons-Decatur Northeast, who bounced back after a loss on the road last Friday. They took their contest at home on Friday with ease, bagging a 60-22 victory over Winside. The Cougars pushed the score to 54-20 by the end of the third, a deficit the Wildcats had no chance of recovering from.
Lyons-Decatur Northeast had a senior duo take command as Landen Cooper rushed for 175 yards and two touchdowns while picking up 9.7 yards per carry and Gavin Hardeman rushed for 131 yards and two touchdowns while picking up 7.7 yards per carry. That's the most rushing yards Cooper has posted since back in September of 2023. Masen Olsen was another key player, rushing for 32 yards and a touchdown.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Lyons-Decatur Northeast was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 450 rushing yards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now rushed for at least 172 rushing yards in 12 consecutive matchups dating back to last season.
On the defensive side of the ball, a lot of the credit has to go to Lyons-Decatur Northeast's defense and their seven sacks. The heavy lifting was done by Garret Vavra and Kaden Knaak, who racked up five sacks between them. Vavra is also on a roll when it comes to total tackles, as he's now made eight or more in the last five games he's played dating back to last season.
The win got Wynot back to even at 2-2. As for Lyons-Decatur Northeast, their victory ended a four-game drought at home dating back to last season and bumped them up to 2-2.
Wynot strolled past Lyons-Decatur Northeast when the teams last played back in October of 2015 by a score of 52-36. Will Wynot repeat their success, or does Lyons-Decatur Northeast have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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