The Dudley Panthers have the luxury of staying home for another week and will welcome the A.C. Reynolds Rockets at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Both squads will be entering this one on the heels of a big victory.
Dudley is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Friday. They took their game with ease, bagging a 55-0 victory over Asheboro. Given the Panthers' advantage in MaxPreps' North Carolina football rankings (they are ranked 16th, while the Blue Comets are ranked 209th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Dudley's defense made their presence known, laying out the QB three times. Robert McCollum was especially locked on to Asheboro's QB and sacked him twice. McCollum has been hot for a while, having also posted five or more total tackles the last 24 times he's played. Dudley got some further help from Adae Motley: he made 11 total tackles (3.0 for loss).
Meanwhile, A.C. Reynolds was fully in charge on Friday, breezing past Central Davidson 37-7. The contest was all but wrapped up at the end of the third, by which point the Rockets had established a 24 point advantage.
Dudley's win was their 14th straight at home dating back to last season, which pushed their record up to 11-0. They've dominated over that stretch too, winning by an average of 47.5 points. As for A.C. Reynolds, they are on a roll lately: they've won five of their last six matches, which provided a nice bump to their 6-4 record this season.
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