The Olathe Northwest Ravens will square off against the Blue Valley West Jaguars at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Expect the scorekeeper to be kept busy: if their previous games are any indication, both will really light up the scoreboard.
Olathe Northwest is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup last Thursday. They put the hurt on Olathe South with a sharp 44-21 win. The Ravens pushed the score to 44-14 by the end of the third, a deficit the Falcons cut but never quite recovered from.
Jaelen Douglas continued his habit of posting crazy stat lines, rushing for 257 yards and two touchdowns while picking up 9.9 yards per carry, and also catching a touchdown. With that strong performance, he is now averaging an impressive 103 rushing yards per game. Mason Schlittenhard was in the mix as well, providing Olathe Northwest with two touchdowns.
Olathe Northwest was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 360 rushing yards. That's the most rushing yards they've managed all season.
Olathe Northwest didn't go easy on the quarterback and picked off three passes before the game was over. The picks came courtesy of Merak Greinert and Michael Hefley.
Meanwhile, Blue Valley West waltzed into their game on Friday with seven straight wins... but they left with eight. They claimed a resounding 38-7 victory over the Vikings. Given the Jaguars' advantage in MaxPreps' Kansas football rankings (they are ranked fourth, while the Vikings are ranked 109th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
This one was won in the trenches and the lion's share of the credit has to go to Tate Miller and Youqub Abdumalikov. Miller rushed for 81 yards and two touchdowns on only seven carries while Abdumalikov rushed for 120 yards and a touchdown. The dominant performance gave Abdumalikov a new career-high in rushing yards.
Blue Valley West pushed their record up to 8-1 with the win, which was their sixth straight at home dating back to last season. Those good results were due in large part to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 41.3 points per game. As for Olathe Northwest, the victory made it two in a row for them and bumps their season record up to 6-3.
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