Football Preview: North Side Gators vs. Charleston Tigers
North Side has been away from home for two games now, but on Friday they'll finally make their return. They will welcome the Charleston Tigers at 7:00 p.m. Both squads will be entering this one on the heels of a big victory.
North Side's defense heads into the contest hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Friday. They blew past Riverside 54-0 on the road. Given the Gators' advantage in MaxPreps' Mississippi football rankings (they are ranked 80th, while the Bulldogs are ranked 268th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Meanwhile, Charleston had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 36.5 points) and they went ahead and made it three on Friday. They took their matchup at home with ease, bagging a 42-8 win over the Greenwaves. With the Tigers ahead 36-0 at the half, the match was all but over already.
This one was won in the trenches and the lion's share of the credit has to go to Quentin Carter and he. Carter gained 89 total yards and two touchdowns while he gained 89 total yards and two touchdowns.
North Side pushed their record up to 7-1 with the victory, which was their sixth straight on the road dating back to last season. As for Charleston, they are on a roll lately: they've won four of their last five games, which provided a nice bump to their 6-2 record this season.
North Side suffered a grim 32-6 defeat to Charleston in their previous meeting back in October of 2023. That contest was all but decided by halftime, at which point North Side was down 26-0.
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