Football Preview: Durham Trojans vs. East Nicolaus Spartans
Durham is 2-8 against East Nicolaus since November of 2015 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Friday. The Durham Trojans and the East Nicolaus Spartans are set to duel. Durham is coming into the contest hot, having won their last three games.
Durham will head into Friday's game hoping to keep the good times rolling: they proved they can win big last Friday (they won by 29) but on Friday they proved they can win the close ones too. They narrowly escaped with a win as the team sidled past Willows 2-0. The two-point effort marked the Trojans' lowest-scoring match of the season, but in the end it didn't matter.
Meanwhile, Friday just wasn't the day for East Nicolaus' offense. They had to suffer through a 48-0 loss at the hands of Winters.
Even if they lost, East Nicolaus' defensive line still kept up the pressure with 6.5 sacks. Mikey Robbins was especially locked on to Winters' QB and sacked him five times.
Durham's victory bumped their record up to 6-2. As for East Nicolaus, their defeat dropped their record down to 4-4.
Durham came up short against East Nicolaus when the teams last played back in October of 2023, falling 20-14. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of East Nicolaus' Logan Cleary, who rushed for 140 yards and three touchdowns on only 15 carries. Now that Durham 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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