The Fairbanks Panthers are taking a road trip to challenge the Greenon Knights at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Fairbanks will be strutting in after a win while Greenon will be coming in after a defeat.
Fairbanks is headed in fresh off scoring the most points they have all season. They breezed by Catholic Central at home to the tune of 50-13 on Friday. The Panthers pushed the score to 47-7 by the end of the third, a deficit the Irish cut but never quite recovered from.
Meanwhile, Greenon was not able to break out of their rough patch on Friday as the team picked up their sixth straight loss. They were outmatched by Northeastern on the road and fell 53-16. While losing is never fun, the Knights can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Ohio football rankings (they are ranked 612th, while the Jets are ranked 298th).
The victory got Fairbanks back to even at 2-2. As for Greenon, their defeat dropped their record down to 0-4.
Fairbanks strolled past Greenon in their previous meeting back in September of 2023 by a score of 33-14. The rematch might be a little tougher for Fairbanks since the squad 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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