After each having a week off, the McCamey Badgers and the Wink Wildcats will shake off the cobwebs and square off against one another at 7:00 p.m. on Friday.
Wink is facing McCamey at the wrong time: McCamey suffered their first home loss of the season last Friday and they're likely out for redemption. They lost 40-14 to the Broncos. The Badgers have now taken an 'L' in back-to-back games.
The losing side was boosted by Edgar Quinonez, who picked up 126 receiving yards. The dominant performance also gave him a new career-high in rushing yards. Landyn Urias also helped out with an impressive 89 receiving yards.
Meanwhile, Wink waltzed into their contest last Friday with three straight wins... but they left with four. They walked away with a 51-40 win over the Bulldogs. The Wildcats pushed the score to 51-21 by the end of the third, a deficit the Bulldogs cut but never quite recovered from.
Wink found their leader in underclassman Kemyd Faciane, who rushed for 292 yards and four touchdowns while picking up 11.7 yards per carry. Faciane showed off some serious burst, turning on the afterburners on one carry for 62 yards. The team also got some help courtesy of Cayton Noyola, who picked up 81 receiving yards and two touchdowns.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Wink was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 273 rushing yards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now rushed for at least 183 rushing yards in 17 consecutive matches dating back to last season.
McCamey now has a losing record at 2-3. As for Wink, their victory was their third straight at home, which pushed their record up to 4-1.
McCamey took a serious blow against Wink when the teams last played back in October of 2023, falling 52-21. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Faciane, who rushed for 255 yards and three touchdowns while picking up 11.1 yards per carry. Now that McCamey 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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