Football Preview: Ontario Warriors vs. Clyde Fliers
The Ontario Warriors's homestand will continue as they prepare to take on the Clyde Fliers at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Both squads will be entering this one on the heels of a big victory.
Ontario is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Friday. Everything went their way against Clear Fork as Ontario made off with a 24-2 victory. The 24-point effort marked the Warriors' lowest-scoring matchup of the season, but in the end it didn't matter.
Meanwhile, Clyde had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 23.5 points) and they went ahead and made it three on Friday. They simply couldn't be stopped as they easily beat the Knights 42-7. Given the Fliers' advantage in MaxPreps' Ohio football rankings (they are ranked 118th, while the Knights are ranked 336th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Clyde can attribute much of their success to Adam Young, who rushed for 117 yards and two touchdowns, and Brayden Olson, who picked up 105 receiving yards and two touchdowns. Olson really caught the secondary sleeping when he pulled down a catch that went for 90 yards. Jonathan Lantz was another key player, throwing for 145 yards and a touchdown while completing 83.3% of his passes.
Clyde's win was their fourth straight at home, which pushed their record up to 8-3. Those good results were due in large part to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 37.8 points per game. As for Ontario, their victory bumped their record up to 10-1.
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