The Orange Park Raiders will venture away from home to square off against the Clay Blue Devils at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Orange Park is no doubt hoping to put an end to a three-game streak of away losses.
Orange Park is headed into the contest out to prove that what happened against Beachside on Thursday (when they were outscored in every quarter) was just a minor bump in the road. Orange Park was outmatched by Beachside on the road and fell 48-20. While losing is never fun, the Raiders can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Florida football rankings (they are ranked 294th, while the Barracudas are ranked 76th).
Although Orange Park took the loss, they still got scores from Jack Rivera, Quinton Moore, and Brock Aflleje.
Orange Park didn't go easy on the quarterback and picked off two passes before the game was over. The picks came courtesy of Rivera and Zachariah Murphy.
Meanwhile, it's never fun to lose, and it's even less fun to lose 49-13, which was the final score in Clay's tilt against Columbia on Friday.
Orange Park's defeat dropped their record down to 2-7. As for Clay, their loss dropped their record down to 3-6.
Orange Park and Clay were neck-and-neck in their previous meeting back in September of 2023, but Orange Park came up empty-handed after a 42-41 defeat. Can Orange Park avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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