After two games on the road, West Hall is heading back home. They will welcome the Franklin County Lions at 7:30 p.m. on Friday. Both are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.
West Hall is headed in fresh off scoring the most points they have all season. They breezed by Johnson on the road to the tune of 73-0 last Friday. The Spartans pushed the score to 66-0 by the end of the third, a deficit the Knights had no chance of recovering from.
Elijah Hayes continued his habit of posting crazy stat lines, rushing for 220 yards and seven touchdowns on only 12 carries. His rushing production has been exceptional recently as that marked his tenth straight game with at least 101 rushing yards dating back to last season.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, West Hall was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 303 rushing yards. That's the most rushing yards they've posted since back in August of 2023.
Meanwhile, Franklin County waltzed into their match on Friday with two straight wins... but they left with three. They claimed a resounding 49-17 victory over the Warriors at home. The high-flying offensive performance was a huge turnaround for the Lions considering their nine-point performance the matchup before.
West Hall's win bumped their record up to 3-1. As for Franklin County, their victory ended a five-game drought at home dating back to last season and bumped them up to 3-1.
West Hall came up short against Franklin County in their previous meeting back in October of 2015, falling 21-14. Can West Hall avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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