Sullivan East and Unicoi County are an even 5-5 against one another since October of 2014, but not for long. The Sullivan East Patriots will challenge the Unicoi County Blue Devils at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Both come into the contest bolstered by wins in their previous matches.
Sullivan East will head into Friday's game on the come-up: they were handed a 33-point defeat in their previous outing, but they didn't let that bad energy affect their game against Volunteer on Friday. Sullivan East narrowly escaped with a win as the team sidled past Volunteer 24-21.
Peyton Lingerfelt went supernova for Sullivan East, throwing for 295 yards and two touchdowns while completing 77.8% of his passes, and also rushing for 79 yards and a touchdown. A healthy portion of that aerial production (109 yards to be exact) went to Blue Proffitt, who also brought in a receiving touchdown.
Meanwhile, everything went Unicoi County's way against Pigeon Forge on Friday as Unicoi County made off with a 35-14 victory.
Sullivan East's first win this season bumped their record up to 1-2. As for Unicoi County, their victory bumped their record up to 2-0.
Sullivan East was able to grind out a solid win over Unicoi County in their previous meeting back in September of 2023, winning 26-13. The rematch might be a little tougher for Sullivan East since the squad won't have the home-field advantage this time around. We'll see if the change in venue makes a difference.
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