West Rusk unfortunately couldn't capitalize on their home-field advantage in their season opener. They took a hard 33-14 fall against the Malakoff Tigers on Friday. While losing is never fun, the Raiders can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Texas football rankings (they are ranked 444th, while the Tigers are ranked 46th).
Although West Rusk took the loss, they still got scores from Hunter McCandless and Gunner Harp.
Most of the squad's points came courtesy of special teams, who contributed eight in total. The biggest highlight from special teams (and perhaps the team as a whole) came courtesy of Harp, who ran a kickoff back for a touchdown.
Coming up, West Rusk will venture away from home to face off against Diboll at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. As for Malakoff, they will be defending their home field for the first time this season when they go up against Lorena at 7:30 p.m. on Friday.
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