The Liberty Blue Jays will head out on the road to take on the Oak Park Northmen at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Liberty is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 26.9 points per game this season.
Liberty is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Missouri's top teams: Blue Springs South, who was ranked sixth in their home state at the time (Liberty was ranked 18th). Liberty took a hard 41-24 fall against Blue Springs South on Friday. While the Blue Jays didn't get the win, they did start the game off strong, beating the Jaguars 7-6 in the first quarter.
Liberty might have lost, but man, Jaxon Hicks was a machine: he rushed for 185 yards and two touchdowns while picking up 8.0 yards per carry, and also caught a touchdown. Hicks' rushing production has been exceptional recently as that marked his seventh straight game with at least 114 rushing yards dating back to last season.
Meanwhile, Oak Park had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 36.5 points) and they went ahead and made it three on Friday. They walked away with a 28-21 win over the Hornets.
This is the second loss in a row for Liberty and nudges their season record down to 4-3. As for Oak Park, they are on a roll lately: they've won four of their last five matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 5-2 record this season.
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