The matchup between Lumberton and Sacred Heart on Friday hardly resembled the 17-7 effort from their previous meeting. The Lumberton Panthers managed a 39-35 victory over the Sacred Heart Crusaders. The win was familiar territory for the Panthers who have now won four contests in a row.
Sacred Heart lost despite a true team effort on the offense, the best among them being Kyron Murphy, who threw for 207 yards and four touchdowns on only 13 passes, and also rushed for 33 yards. Gary Duckworth was in the mix too, providing Sacred Heart with two touchdowns.
Lumberton is on a roll lately: they've won five of their last six games, which provided a nice bump to their 6-2 record this season. As for Sacred Heart, their defeat ended a four-game streak of wins at home dating back to last season and dropped them to 6-2.
A feisty cat fight will be fought when Panthers dukes it out withSalem at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. As for Sacred Heart, they will venture away from home to challenge Resurrection Catholic at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Sacred Heart is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 38.5 points per game this season.
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