Football Preview: Marion Center Stingers vs. River Valley Panthers
The Marion Center Stingers will face off against the River Valley Panthers at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Both are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.
Marion Center's defense heads into the contest hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Friday. They took their game on the road with ease, bagging a 41-0 victory over Purchase Line. The high-scoring effort was just what the Stingers needed considering they were shutout in their previous matchup.
Meanwhile, River Valley waltzed into their match on Friday with five straight wins... but they left with six. They claimed a resounding 47-13 win over the Blue Jays on the road. The Panthers might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won five contests by 25 points or more this season.
This one was won in the trenches and the lion's share of the credit has to go to Gavin Burkhart and he. Burkhart rushed for 99 yards and two touchdowns while he rushed for 99 yards and two touchdowns. His longest rush was for an incredible 80 yards.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, River Valley was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 323 rushing yards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now rushed for at least 252 rushing yards in six consecutive games.
Marion Center pushed their record up to 5-2 with the victory, which was their fourth straight on the road. As for River Valley, their win bumped their record up to 6-1.
Marion Center suffered a grim 40-16 defeat to River Valley in their previous meeting back in September of 2023. That matchup was all but decided by halftime, at which point Marion Center was down 40-8.
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