The Southern Buckeye Warriors will take on the Foxfire Phoenix at 5:00 p.m. on Friday. The two teams have had a bumpy ride up to this point with eight consecutive losses dating back to last season for Southern Buckeye and three for Foxfire.
Southern Buckeye's offense might be in the hot seat on Friday considering what happened against Peebles on Saturday. They took a blow against the Indians, falling 40-0. That makes it the first time this season the Warriors have let down their home crowd.
Meanwhile, it's never fun to lose, and it's even less fun to lose 62-30, which was the final score in Foxfire's tilt against North Adams on Saturday.
Foxfire's defeat shouldn't obscure the performances of Julian Ratcliff, who rushed for 123 yards and two touchdowns on only 15 carries, and Koben Bowen, who rushed for 93 yards and a touchdown on only 11 carries.
He was just one part of a punishing run game: Foxfire was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 402 rushing yards. That's the most rushing yards they've managed all season.
Southern Buckeye's loss dropped their record down to 0-4. As for Foxfire, their defeat dropped their record down to 1-3.
Southern Buckeye took a serious blow against Foxfire when the teams last played back in August, falling 52-8. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Foxfire's Braydon O'Neill, who rushed for 58 yards and a touchdown on only six carries, and also picked up 52 receiving yards and a touchdown. Now that Southern Buckeye knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? There's only one way to find out.
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