The Fort Stockton Panthers will square off against the Liberty Patriots at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Fort Stockton has four straight wins, Liberty has four straight losses), but none of that matters once you're on the field.
Last Friday, Fort Stockton made easy work of Crane and carried off a 41-20 victory. Considering the Panthers have won three contests by more than 20 points this season, Friday's blowout was nothing new.
Fort Stockton can attribute much of their success to Kasch Norman, who rushed for 57 yards and three touchdowns, and Gerry Diaz, who rushed for 115 yards and a touchdown while picking up 7.2 yards per carry. Norman has been hot recently, having posted two or more rushing touchdowns the last three times he's played. Angel Lujan also helped out with an impressive 84 receiving yards.
Fort Stockton wouldn't let Crane keep a hold of the ball as they managed to force two fumbles. Fort Stockton can thank Ethan Jimenez and Ejay Ortiz for forcing both of them.
Meanwhile, Liberty was beaten by Seminole 62-15 on Friday. While losing is never fun, the Patriots can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Texas football rankings (they are ranked 1179th, while the Indians are ranked 130th).
Fort Stockton's win bumped their record up to 4-0. As for Liberty, their defeat dropped their record down to 0-4.
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