The Mary Persons Bulldogs are taking a road trip to square off against the Whitewater Wildcats at 7:30 p.m. on Friday. Mary Persons is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 28.7 points per game this season.
Mary Persons' offense will try to repeat the strong performance it gave on Friday, when they got past Sandy Creek's usually-dominant defense. Mary Persons walked away with a 37-29 victory over Sandy Creek. The Bulldogs pushed the score to 34-13 by the end of the third, a deficit the Patriots cut but never quite recovered from.
Mac Nelson had an outrageously good game as he threw for 280 yards and three touchdowns while completing 82.6% of his passes. Caden Lavinka was another key player, picking up 85 receiving yards and two touchdowns.
On the other side of the ball, a lot of the credit has to go to Mary Persons' defense and their five sacks. Sandy Creek's QB won't forget Dacoryus Jenkins anytime soon given he sacked him twice. Jenkins has been hot recently, having also posted five or more total tackles the last three times he's played.
Special teams also played a big role in the game for Mary Persons, adding 13 points to the final score. All those points came courtesy of Ryan Bankston: he added nine points with three field goals, and another four kicking extra points.
Meanwhile, Whitewater posted their biggest win since October 27, 2023 on Friday. They put the hurt on Fayette County with a sharp 30-10 victory. With the Wildcats ahead 30-0 at the half, the matchup was all but over already.
This one was won in the trenches and the lion's share of the credit has to go to Marcus Blake and he. Blake rushed for 52 yards while he rushed for 52 yards. The dominant performance gave him a new career-high in rushing yards.
Mary Persons' win ended a three-game drought at home and bumped them up to 3-6. As for Whitewater, the victory snapped their losing streak at three games and leaves them with a 4-5 record.
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