Edwardsville has gone 10-0 against Belleville East recently and they'll look to pad the win column further on Friday. The Edwardsville Tigers will welcome the Belleville East Lancers at 7:00 p.m. After the two teams made easy work of their previous opponents, one won't be so lucky on Friday.
Belleville East is hoping to do what Alton couldn't on Friday: put an end to Edwardsville's winning streak, which now stands at four games. Edwardsville claimed a resounding 42-0 victory over Alton on the road. The Tigers might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won four matchups by 34 points or more this season.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Belleville East). They blew past O'Fallon 36-10 on Saturday. Given the Lancers' advantage in MaxPreps' Illinois football rankings (they are ranked 69th, while the Panthers are ranked 239th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Keithen Jones and Jaedon Beamon were among the main playmakers for Belleville East as the former picked up 105 receiving yards and two touchdowns and the latter rushed for 152 yards on only 15 carries. Those 152 rushing yards gave Beamon a new career-high.
He was just one part of a punishing run game: Belleville East was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 244 rushing yards. That's the most rushing yards they've managed all season.
Belleville East didn't go easy on the quarterback and picked off two passes before the game was over. The picks came courtesy of Kadin Sabree and Xavien Moody.
Edwardsville pushed their record up to 5-1 with the win, which was their seventh straight on the road dating back to last season. As for Belleville East, the victory made it two in a row for them and bumps their season record up to 4-2.
Edwardsville didn't have too much breathing room in their contest against Belleville East when the teams last played back in October of 2023, but they still walked away with a 49-45 win. One of the biggest obstacles trying to stand in the way of that victory was Belleville East's Armon Vinson, who threw for 296 yards and three touchdowns while completing 75% of his passes, and also rushed for 75 yards and a touchdown. Now that he won't be playing on Friday, will it be easier for Edwardsville to walk away with another win? There's only one way to find out.
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