Football Preview: Whitehouse Wildcats vs. Mt. Pleasant Tigers
The Whitehouse Wildcats will venture away from home to square off against the Mt. Pleasant Tigers at 7:30 p.m. on Friday. Whitehouse will be strutting in after a win while Mt. Pleasant will be coming in after a loss.
Whitehouse will head into Friday's game on the come-up: they were handed a two-point defeat in their last match, but they sure didn't let that happen against Paris on Friday. Whitehouse blew past Paris 55-35. Whitehouse pushed the score to 41-14 by the end of the third, a deficit Paris cut but never quite recovered from.
It was another big night for Carter Mclaughlin, who rushed for 200 yards and three touchdowns on only 15 carries. His longest rush was for an impressive 63 yards, which helps to explain his lofty yards per carry total. Carson Lacombe was in the mix as well, providing Whitehouse with two touchdowns.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Whitehouse was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 312 rushing yards. That's the most rushing yards they've posted since back in September of 2023.
Meanwhile, Mt. Pleasant was not able to break out of their rough patch on Friday as the team picked up their fourth straight loss. They fell 24-14 to Sulphur Springs. While losing is never fun, the Tigers can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Texas football rankings (they are ranked 477th, while the Wildcats are ranked 227th).
Even if they lost, Mt. Pleasant's defense still kept up the pressure with four sacks. Leading the way was Cooper Rider with two. Mt. Pleasant got some further help from Emmanuel Harris: he picked up a sack, made ten total tackles, and made ten total tackles.
The victory got Whitehouse back to even at 2-2. As for Mt. Pleasant, their defeat dropped their record down to 0-4.
Everything came up roses for Whitehouse against Mt. Pleasant when the teams last played back in October of 2023, as the team secured a 42-14 win. In that matchup, Whitehouse amassed a halftime lead of 28-7, an impressive feat they'll look to repeat on Friday.
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