The Sunray Bobcats will square off against the Canadian Wildcats at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Sunray will be looking to keep their five-game home win streak dating back to last season alive.
Last Friday, Sunray didn't have too much trouble with Childress on the road as they won 21-7. Given Sunray's advantage in MaxPreps' Texas football rankings (they are ranked 201st, while Childress is ranked 548th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Canadian). They walked away with a 74-67 victory over Muleshoe on Friday. That's two games straight that the Wildcats have won by exactly seven points.
Slayden Dickinson went supernova for Canadian, rushing for 381 yards and seven touchdowns while picking up 10.0 yards per carry. The dominant performance gave Dickinson a new career-high in rushing yards. The team also got some help courtesy of Clay Kendall, who rushed for 164 yards and two touchdowns while picking up 7.5 yards per carry.
He was just one part of a punishing run game: Canadian was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 579 rushing yards. The team's really been improving in that area: they've now improved they're rushing yard total in three consecutive games.
Canadian's defense was in the mix too, especially the secondary: they snagged two passes before it was all said and done. The picks came courtesy of Zach Bryant and Weston Mitchell.
Sunray's win bumped their record up to 4-0. As for Canadian, their victory bumped their record up to 3-1.
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