Two dominant signal callers in Cayden Keeth and CLAYTON NAMKEN are getting ready to go toe-to-toe. The Pieper Warriors will welcome the New Braunfels Unicorns at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Both teams are coming into the matchup red-hot, with Pieper sitting on six straight wins and New Braunfels on four.
Pieper is headed in fresh off scoring the most points they have all season. They strolled past Seguin with points to spare on Friday, taking the game 56-37. Given the Warriors' advantage in MaxPreps' Texas football rankings (they are ranked 56th, while the Matadors are ranked 325th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Keeth was his usual excellent self, throwing for 287 yards and four touchdowns while completing 78.9% of his passes, and also rushing for 101 yards and two touchdowns on only six carries. Brady Hopper was another key player, rushing for 59 yards and a touchdown on only five carries.
Pieper didn't go easy on the quarterback and picked off two passes before the game was over. The picks came courtesy of Grant Oling and Jackson Hopper.
Meanwhile, New Braunfels didn't have too much trouble with Boerne-Champion at home on Friday as they won 49-34.
NAMKEN continued his habit of posting crazy stat lines, rushing for 105 yards and four touchdowns, while also throwing for 269 yards and two touchdowns. Another player making a difference was BROCK STEWART, who rushed for 172 yards and a touchdown while picking up 7.2 yards per carry.
He was just one part of a punishing run game: New Braunfels was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 288 rushing yards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now rushed for at least 200 rushing yards in three consecutive contests.
Pieper pushed their record up to 6-0 with the victory, which was their eighth straight on the road dating back to last season. As for New Braunfels, their win bumped their record up to 5-1.
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