The Poca The Dots will square off against the Clay County Panthers at 7:30 p.m. on Friday. Poca is coming into the contest on a four-game losing streak.
Poca is headed into the matchup out to prove that what happened against Scott on Friday (when they were outscored in every quarter) was just a minor bump in the road. Poca was beaten by Scott 63-8.
Meanwhile, it was a proper cat-fight when Clay County took on Grafton on Friday. Clay County took a 64-57 hit to the loss column at the hands of Grafton. Despite running the score up even higher than they did in their prior game two weeks ago (55), the Panthers still had to take the loss.
The match pitted two dominant signal callers against one another in Noah Collins and Cam Foley. Foley had a great game and threw for 373 yards and eight touchdowns while picking up 11.7 yards per attempt. Meanwhile, Collins was balling out in the loss, throwing for 544 yards and five touchdowns while completing 73.5% of his passes, and also rushing for 72 yards and two touchdowns.
Even if they lost, Clay County's defensive line still kept up the pressure with three sacks. In fact, those sacks all came courtesy of defensive juggernaut James Grose. He also made seven total tackles, which is notable because Clay County is 3-1 when he posts at least four total tackles, but 1-2 otherwise.
Poca now has a losing record at 3-4. As for Clay County, their loss dropped their record down to 4-3.
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