The Centralia Orphans will square off against the Carbondale Terriers at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Centralia will be strutting in after a win while Carbondale will be coming in after a loss.
Centralia is headed in fresh off scoring the most points they have all season. They breezed by Granite City at home to the tune of 49-6 on Friday.
Meanwhile, Carbondale was not able to break out of their rough patch on Friday as the team picked up their third straight defeat. They lost 44-21 to Cahokia. While losing is never fun, the Terriers can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Illinois football rankings (they are ranked 230th, while the Comanches are ranked 107th).
Carbondale might have lost, but man, Demarzion Graham was a machine: he rushed for 86 yards and three touchdowns.
The victory got Centralia back to even at 2-2. As for Carbondale, their loss dropped their record down to 1-3.
Centralia came up short against Carbondale in their previous matchup back in September of 2023, falling 49-39. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Graham, who rushed for 138 yards and a touchdown on only 11 carries, and also picked up 73 receiving yards and a touchdown. Now that Centralia knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? There's only one way to find out.
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