After each having a week off, the Zephyrhills Christian Academy Warriors and the Hawthorne Hornets will shake off the cobwebs and take on one another at 7:00 p.m. on Friday.
Last Friday, Zephyrhills Christian Academy was beaten by Flagler Palm Coast 50-19. While losing is never fun, the Warriors can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Florida football rankings (they are ranked 373rd, while the Bulldogs are ranked 99th).
Zephyrhills Christian Academy might have lost, but man, Jadon Olaffson was a machine: he threw for 262 yards and two touchdowns while completing 80% of his passes. Kendall Johnson got in on the action as well, returning a kick for a touchdown.
Meanwhile, Hawthorne didn't have too much breathing room in their contest against South Sumter last Friday, but they still walked away with a 26-20 victory. The 26-point effort marked the Hornets' lowest-scoring match of the season, but in the end it didn't matter.
Keenon Johnson was his usual excellent self, rushing for 225 yards and three touchdowns while picking up 10.7 yards per carry. The dominant performance gave him a new career-high in rushing yards.
Hawthorne was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 220 rushing yards. That's the most rushing yards they've managed all season.
This is the second loss in a row for Zephyrhills Christian Academy and nudges their season record down to 1-3. As for Hawthorne, the win made it two in a row for them and bumps their season record up to 4-1.
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