The Kent County Trojans will look to defend their home field on Friday against the Colonel Richardson Colonels at 6:00 p.m. Both are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.
Having struggled with four defeats in a row, Kent County finally turned things around against Washington on Thursday. Their defense stepped up to hand the Jaguars a 26-0 shutout.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Colonel Richardson). They blew past Nandua 60-14 at home on Thursday. The Colonels might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won four matches by 37 points or more this season.
Derrick Mitchell was his usual excellent self, picking up 117 receiving yards and a touchdown, while also rushing for 101 yards on only six carries. His longest reception was for an impressive 54 yards, which helps to explain his lofty yards per catch total. Another player making a difference was Tarron Hammond, who threw for 203 yards and two touchdowns while completing 71.4% of his passes.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Colonel Richardson was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 371 rushing yards. That's the most rushing yards they've posted since back in October of 2023.
Colonel Richardson didn't go easy on the quarterback and picked off two passes before the game was over. The picks came courtesy of Jayquan Wilkins and Emare (EJ) Jones.
Kent County's win bumped their record up to 2-5. As for Colonel Richardson, the victory (which was their third in a row) raised their record to 4-3.
Kent County was taken down by Colonel Richardson 57-8 in their previous meeting back in October of 2023. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Mitchell, who rushed for 59 yards and two touchdowns on only seven carries, and also picked up 52 receiving yards. Now that Kent County 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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