Football Preview: Parish Episcopal Panthers vs. Liberty Christian Warriors
Parish Episcopal and Liberty Christian are an even 3-3 against one another since October of 2016, but not for long. The Parish Episcopal Panthers will challenge the Liberty Christian Warriors on Saturday. Each of these teams will be fighting to keep a win streak alive as Parish Episcopal comes in on four and Liberty Christian on ten.
Parish Episcopal is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Saturday. They blew past Legacy Christian Academy 42-7. The Panthers might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won eight matches by 24 points or more this season.
Nick Wheeler had a dynamite game for Parish Episcopal, rushing for 111 yards and three touchdowns on only eight carries. Those 111 rushing yards gave Wheeler a new career-high. Sawyer Anderson was another key player, throwing for 247 yards and two touchdowns while picking up 12.4 yards per attempt.
Parish Episcopal was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 268 rushing yards. The team's really been improving in that area: they've now improved their rushing yard total in three consecutive contests.
Meanwhile, Liberty Christian won against Bishop Lynch two weeks ago with 63 points and they decided to stick to that point total again on Saturday. Liberty Christian never let St. Thomas Catholic onto the board and left with a 63-0 win. Considering the Warriors have won nine matchups by more than 27 points this season, Saturday's blowout was nothing new.
It was another big night for Quinn Murphy, who threw for 224 yards and five touchdowns, and also rushed for 57 yards and a touchdown.
Liberty Christian pushed their record up to 11-1 with the victory, which was their sixth straight at home. Those victories were due in large part to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 52.8 points per game. As for Parish Episcopal, they are on a roll lately: they've won seven of their last nine games, which provided a nice bump to their 9-4 record this season.
Saturday's match will pit two of the most dominant signal callers against one another: Anderson and Murphy. Anderson just won't slow down this season and has thrown 47 touchdowns while averaging 371.5 passing yards per game. Murphy has been a dominant force too and has thrown 39 touchdowns while averaging 231.6 passing yards per game.
Parish Episcopal came up short against Liberty Christian in their previous matchup back in October, falling 35-27. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Murphy, who threw for 291 yards and three touchdowns while completing 80.8% of his passes, and also rushed for 54 yards and a touchdown. Now that Parish Episcopal knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? Check MaxPreps.com after the match to find out.
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