Football Preview: Emerald Vikings vs. Fountain Inn Fury
The Emerald Vikings will head out on the road to challenge the Fountain Inn Fury at 7:30 p.m. on Friday. Emerald will be strutting in after a win while Fountain Inn will be coming in after a loss.
Emerald is headed in fresh off scoring the most points they have all season. They breezed by Southside on the road to the tune of 51-12 on Friday. The game was pretty much decided by the half, when the score had already reached 31-6.
Emerald didn't go easy on the quarterback and picked off two passes before the game was over. The picks came courtesy of Tiquae Ryans and Mazyus Scott. Emerald got some further help from Jalon Dunlap: he picked up three sacks and made 12 total tackles.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Emerald was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 346 rushing yards. That's the most rushing yards they've managed all season.
Meanwhile, a victory for Fountain Inn just wasn't in the cards on Friday as the squad wasn't able to take the lead at any point. They had to suffer through a 49-19 loss at the hands of Westside. While losing is never fun, the Fury can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' South Carolina football rankings (they are ranked 57th, while the Rams are ranked second).
Emerald moved to 3-4 with that win, which also ended their four-game losing streak. As for Fountain Inn, their defeat dropped their record down to 4-3.
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