After starting their season with three straight games on the road, Homewood-Flossmoor is finally coming home. They will look to take advantage of their home-field as they take on the Neuqua Valley Wildcats at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Having both just faced considerable losses, both teams are looking to turn things around.
It's never fun to lose, and it's even less fun to lose 63-34, which was the final score in Homewood-Flossmoor's tilt against Sandburg on Friday. The loss was the Vikings' first of the season.
Despite the loss, Homewood-Flossmoor got top-tier performance from Michael Terrell Jr., who rushed for 159 yards and three touchdowns while picking up 9.4 yards per carry. The dominant performance gave Terrell Jr. a new career-high in rushing yards. The team also got some help courtesy of Myles Ellis, who picked up 122 receiving yards and a touchdown.
Meanwhile, Neuqua Valley was not able to break out of their rough patch on Friday as the team picked up their fourth straight defeat. They were beaten by Lockport 41-14. The Wildcats were already down big by the end of the third quarter and they stayed that way after failing to score in the fourth.
Having lost for the first time this season, Homewood-Flossmoor fell to 2-1. As for Neuqua Valley, their loss dropped their record down to 0-3.
Homewood-Flossmoor strolled past Neuqua Valley when the teams last played back in November of 2019 by a score of 38-22. One of the biggest obstacles trying to stand in the way of that victory was Neuqua Valley's Mark Gronowski, who rushed for 114 yards and a touchdown on only 12 carries, and also threw for 123 yards on ten of 17 attempts. Now that he won't be playing on Friday, will it be easier for Homewood-Flossmoor to walk away with another win? There's only one way to find out.
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