The Armwood Hawks will take on the Wharton Wildcats at 7:30 p.m. on Friday. Armwood is currently enjoying a perfect season and no doubt wants to keep things rolling.
Armwood is headed in fresh off scoring the most points they have all season. They blew past Steinbrenner 62-3 at home on Saturday. The result was nothing new for the Hawks, who have now won six games by 23 points or more so far this season.
Girard Pringle Jr. and Rhys Brush were among the main playmakers for Armwood as the former rushed for 209 yards and two touchdowns on only nine carries and the latter threw for 251 yards and six touchdowns on only 19 passes. With that strong performance, Pringle Jr. is now averaging an impressive 110.7 rushing yards per game. Olontae Dean was Brush's top target, picking up 31 receiving yards and two touchdowns.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Armwood was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 277 rushing yards. That's the most rushing yards they've posted since back in October of 2023.
Armwood's defense made their presence known, laying out the QB five times. Jordan Bellamy was especially locked on to Steinbrenner's QB and sacked him twice. Bellamy also set a new season high mark in total tackles with nine. Theo Wilson was another major factor on D, picking up a sack and making four total tackles (3.0 for loss) in addition to snagging an interception.
Meanwhile, a win for Wharton just wasn't in the cards on Saturday as the team wasn't able to take the lead at any point. They were beaten by Gaither 54-6. While losing is never fun, the Wildcats can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Florida football rankings (they are ranked 287th, while the Cowboys are ranked 50th).
Armwood pushed their record up to 7-0 with the victory, which was their third straight at home. As for Wharton, this is the second loss in a row for them and nudges their season record down to 2-6.
Armwood didn't have too much breathing room in their match against Wharton in their previous matchup back in November of 2023, but they still walked away with a 20-14 win. Will Armwood repeat their success, or does Wharton have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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