Football Preview: Medicine Valley Raiders vs. Sumner-Eddyville-Miller Mustangs
The Medicine Valley Raiders will venture away from home to challenge the Sumner-Eddyville-Miller Mustangs at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Medicine Valley, yet to win a game, are hoping to taste some of the success that has characterized Sumner-Eddyville-Miller's (thus far) undefeated season.
It's never fun to lose, and it's even less fun to lose 60-33, which was the final score in Medicine Valley's tilt against Ansley/Litchfield on Friday.
Meanwhile, everything came up roses for Sumner-Eddyville-Miller on the road against Shelton two weeks ago as the team secured a 52-24 win. Given the Mustangs' advantage in MaxPreps' Nebraska football rankings (they are ranked 20th, while the Bulldogs are ranked 75th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Maddox Jones had an outrageously good game as he rushed for 195 yards and six touchdowns while picking up 10.3 yards per carry. He is on a roll when it comes to rushing touchdowns, as he's now punched in two or more in the last 11 games he's played dating back to last season.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Sumner-Eddyville-Miller was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 238 rushing yards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now rushed for at least 154 rushing yards in ten consecutive games dating back to last season.
Medicine Valley's loss dropped their record down to 0-3. As for Sumner-Eddyville-Miller, their victory was their sixth straight on the road dating back to last season, which pushed their record up to 3-0.
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