Elizabethton and Greeneville are an even 5-5 against one another since October of 2017, but not for long. The Elizabethton Fighting Cyclones will be staying on the road on Thursday to face off against the Greeneville Greene Devils at 7:00 p.m. Both squads will be entering this one on the heels of a big victory.
Elizabethton's defense heads into the contest hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed last Friday. They simply couldn't be stopped as they easily beat Volunteer 42-0. Given the Fighting Cyclones' advantage in MaxPreps' Tennessee football rankings (they are ranked 79th, while the Falcons are ranked 301st), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Rhett Slagle was his usual excellent self, throwing for 172 yards and three touchdowns. Jaiden Wallin was in the mix as well, providing Elizabethton with two touchdowns.
Elizabethton didn't go easy on the quarterback and picked off two passes before the game was over. The picks came courtesy of Bryson Rowland and Zack Wallin.
Meanwhile, Greeneville had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 67 points) and they went ahead and made it three on Friday. They claimed a resounding 56-21 win over the Cougars. The Greene Devils pushed the score to 56-7 by the end of the third, a deficit the Cougars cut but never quite recovered from.
Elizabethton pushed their record up to 6-2 with the victory, which was their ninth straight on the road dating back to last season. As for Greeneville, they are on a roll lately: they've won four of their last five matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 7-1-1 record this season.
Elizabethton came up short against Greeneville in their previous matchup back in October of 2023, falling 23-13. Can Elizabethton avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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