Richland County is on a four-game streak of home wins, while Kewanee is on a three-game streak of away wins: one of those streaks is about to end. The Richland County Tigers will welcome the Kewanee Boilermakers at 3:00 p.m. on Saturday. Richland County knows how to get points on the board -- the squad has finished with 31 points or more in their past seven matchups -- so hopefully Kewanee likes a good challenge.
Last Friday, Richland County got the win against Robinson by a conclusive 50-27. The Tigers might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won six matches by 21 points or more this season.
The match pitted two dominant signal callers against one another in Gavyn Cothern and Reese Johnson. Cothern had a great game and rushed for 210 yards and three touchdowns on only 13 carries. Meanwhile, Johnson was balling out in the loss, throwing for 374 yards and four touchdowns while picking up 11.3 yards per attempt.
Richland County was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 421 rushing yards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now rushed for at least 190 rushing yards in nine consecutive contests.
Richland County wouldn't let Robinson keep a hold of the ball as they managed to force two fumbles. Richland County can thank Jace Paddock and Casey A Thomann for forcing both of them.
Meanwhile, Kewanee earned a 44-34 victory over Orion on Friday.
Richland County's win bumped their record up to 9-0. As for Kewanee, they are on a roll lately: they've won four of their last five games, which provided a nice bump to their 5-4 record this season.
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