The Perkins County Plainsmen will challenge the Bridgeport Bulldogs at 6:00 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.
Perkins County is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Nebraska's top teams: South Loup, who was ranked 23rd in their home state at the time (Perkins County was ranked tenth). Perkins County blew past South Loup 40-12 on the road on Friday. The matchup was all but wrapped up at the end of the third, by which point the Plainsmen had established a 22 point advantage.
Meanwhile, Bridgeport beat Sandhills Valley 64-52 on Friday.
Multiple players turned in solid performances to lead Bridgeport to victory, but perhaps none more so than Nikolas Weibert, who threw for 257 yards and four touchdowns, and also rushed for 157 yards while picking up 8.7 yards per carry. The dominant performance gave Weibert a new career-high in rushing yards. Another rusher making a difference was Logen Leithead, who rushed for 122 yards and three touchdowns.
He was just one part of a punishing run game: Bridgeport was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 285 rushing yards. They easily outclassed their opponents in that department as Sandhills Valley only rushed for 185.
Perkins County now has a winning record of 2-1. As for Bridgeport, their victory (their first of the season) made their record 1-2.
Perkins County didn't have too much breathing room in their game against Bridgeport when the teams last played back in August of 2023, but they still walked away with a 20-14 win. One of the biggest obstacles trying to stand in the way of that victory was Bridgeport's Peyton Abbott, who rushed for 121 yards and a touchdown on only 15 carries. Now that he won't be playing on Friday, will it be easier for Perkins County to walk away with another win? There's only one way to find out.
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