The Hazel Park Vikings will head out on the road to challenge the Clintondale Dragons at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Keep an eye on the score for this one: the two teams posted some lofty point totals in their previous games.
Last Friday, Hazel Park took their contest at home with ease, bagging a 46-14 win over Clawson. The Vikings pushed the score to 40-14 by the end of the third, a deficit the Trojans had little chance of recovering from.
Montrell Parker was his usual excellent self, rushing for 180 yards and two touchdowns while picking up 10.6 yards per carry. He is on a roll when it comes to rushing touchdowns, as he's now punched in two or more in the last three games he's played dating back to last season. The team also got some help courtesy of Elijah Cobb, who threw for 100 yards and two touchdowns on only nine passes.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Hazel Park was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 352 rushing yards. That's the most rushing yards they've managed all season.
Meanwhile, Clintondale had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 52 points) and they went ahead and made it three on Friday. They claimed a resounding 62-20 victory over the Rockets at home. That's two games straight that the Dragons have won by exactly 42 points.
The win made it two in a row for Hazel Park and bumps their season record up to 3-1. As for Clintondale, their record now sits at 3-1.
Hazel Park was taken down by Clintondale 44-0 in their previous meeting back in October of 2021. Can Hazel Park avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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