After each having a week off, the Lowndes Vikings and the North Paulding Wolfpack will shake off the cobwebs and square off against one another at 8:00 p.m. on Friday. Lowndes will be looking to keep their eight-game home win streak alive.
Lowndes is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Georgia's top teams: Valdosta, who was ranked 18th in their home state at the time (Lowndes was ranked seventh). Lowndes walked away with a 30-20 win over Valdosta last Friday.
The match pitted two dominant signal callers against one another in Marvis Parrish and Todd Robinson. Parrish had a great game and rushed for 131 yards and two touchdowns on only 14 carries. Meanwhile, Robinson was balling out in the loss, rushing for 65 yards and a touchdown, while also throwing for 202 yards and a touchdown.
Lowndes was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 281 rushing yards. The team's really been improving in that area: they've now improved their rushing yard total in four consecutive games.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask North Paulding). They came out on top against Marietta by a score of 38-28 last Friday.
This one was won in the trenches and the lion's share of the credit has to go to James Skelly and Khalil Harrell. Skelly rushed for 151 yards and two touchdowns while picking up 7.2 yards per carry while Harrell rushed for 89 yards and two touchdowns on only 11 carries. Harrell has become a key player for North Paulding: the team is undefeated when he posts at least two rushing touchdowns, but 3-4 otherwise. The team also got some help courtesy of Dube Enongene, who gained 63 total yards and a touchdown.
North Paulding is on a roll lately: they've won three of their last four matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 6-4 record this season. Those victories were due in large part to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 28.5 points per game. As for Lowndes, their victory bumped their record up to 9-1.
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