Liberty-Eylau is 1-6 against Pleasant Grove since September of 2016 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Friday. The Liberty-Eylau Leopards will head out on the road to face off against the Pleasant Grove Hawks at 7:30 p.m. The teams are rolling into the game with opposing streaks: Liberty-Eylau has struggled recently with three defeats in a row, while Pleasant Grove will arrive with seven straight wins.
Last Friday, Liberty-Eylau was beaten by Gilmer 56-12. While losing is never fun, Liberty-Eylau can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Texas football rankings (they are ranked 668th, while Gilmer is ranked 189th).
Although Liberty-Eylau took the loss, they still got scores from Britain Pipes and Tavarious Neal.
Meanwhile, Pleasant Grove really took it to Pittsburg for the full four quarters, racking up a 63-7 victory on the road. 63 seems to be a good number for Pleasant Grove as the team scooped up a win with the same number of points in their previous game.
Pleasant Grove's win bumped their season record to 7-0 while Liberty-Eylau's loss dropped theirs to 1-5.
Liberty-Eylau was dealt a bruising 42-15 loss at the hands of Pleasant Grove in their previous meeting back in October of 2022. Can Liberty-Eylau avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
