The Monroe Area Purple Hurricanes will venture away from home to face off against the Apalachee Wildcats at 7:30 p.m. on Friday. Apalachee took a loss in their last match and will be looking to turn the tables on Monroe Area, who comes in off a win.
Monroe Area's defense heads into the matchup hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed last Friday. They took their contest at home with ease, bagging a 38-0 win over Cedar Shoals. Given the Purple Hurricanes' advantage in MaxPreps' Georgia football rankings (they are ranked 141st, while the Jaguars are ranked 340th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Forrest Ross and Jitt Carr were among the main playmakers for Monroe Area as the former rushed for 102 yards and a touchdown on only 11 carries and the latter rushed for 114 yards and two touchdowns.
On the other side of the ball, a lot of the credit has to go to Monroe Area's defense and their seven sacks. The heavy lifting was done by Dacian Davis and William Carr who racked up six sacks between them. With that strong performance, Davis is now averaging an impressive 2.5 sacks per game.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Monroe Area was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 278 rushing yards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now rushed for at least 192 rushing yards in seven consecutive games dating back to last season.
Meanwhile, Apalachee was not able to break out of their rough patch on Friday as the team picked up their 13th straight defeat. They came up short against Walnut Grove, falling 35-13. The Wildcats were down 35-6 at the end of the third quarter, which was just too much to recover from.
Monroe Area pushed their record up to 2-0 with that victory, which was their fifth straight at home dating back to last season. As for Apalachee, their loss dropped their record down to 0-3.
Monroe Area beat Apalachee 18-7 when the teams last played back in August of 2019. The rematch might be a little tougher for Monroe Area since the team won't have the home-field advantage this time around. We'll see if the change in venue makes a difference.
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