After each having a week off, the Seminole Ridge Hawks and the Dwyer Panthers will shake off the cobwebs and square off against one another at 6:30 p.m. on Friday. Seminole Ridge will come in still looking for their first win of the season.
Seminole Ridge is headed into the game out to prove that what happened against Benjamin last Friday (when they were outscored in every quarter) was just a minor bump in the road. Seminole Ridge was beaten by Benjamin 49-14. While losing is never fun, the Hawks can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Florida football rankings (they are ranked 350th, while the Buccaneers are ranked 104th).
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Dwyer). They blew past Palm Beach Lakes 35-6 on the road last Friday. The Panthers pushed the score to 28-6 by the end of the third, a deficit the Rams had little chance of recovering from.
Seminole Ridge's defeat dropped their record down to 0-7. As for Dwyer, their victory bumped their record up to 2-5.
Seminole Ridge suffered a grim 34-14 defeat to Dwyer in their previous matchup back in October of 2023. Can Seminole Ridge avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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