Lewistown/Cuba/Spoon River Valley are taking a road trip to challenge the Elmwood/Brimfield Trojans at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Lewistown/Cuba/Spoon River Valley has a tough task ahead: they'll enter the matchup with ten straight losses, while Elmwood/Brimfield will come in with three straight wins.
Lewistown/Cuba/Spoon River Valley is headed into the game out to prove that what happened against Farmington on Friday (when they were outscored in every quarter) was just a minor bump in the road. Lewistown/Cuba/Spoon River Valley was outmatched by Farmington at home and fell 47-6. While losing is never fun, Lewistown/Cuba/Spoon River Valley can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Illinois football rankings (they are ranked 495th, while Farmington is ranked 108th).
Meanwhile, Elmwood/Brimfield made easy work of Abingdon/Avon on Friday and carried off a 55-32 victory. The contest was pretty much decided by the half, when the score had already reached 35-12.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Elmwood/Brimfield was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 513 rushing yards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now rushed for at least 209 rushing yards in eight consecutive matches.
Lewistown/Cuba/Spoon River Valley's defeat dropped their record down to 0-8. As for Elmwood/Brimfield, they pushed their record up to 7-1 with the win, which was their seventh straight on the road dating back to last season.
Lewistown/Cuba/Spoon River Valley was taken down by Elmwood/Brimfield 69-16 when the teams last played back in October of 2023. Can Lewistown/Cuba/Spoon River Valley avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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