The West Craven Eagles will take on the New Bern Bears at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. West Craven will be strutting in after a win while New Bern will be coming in after a loss.
Last Friday, even if it wasn't a dominant performance, West Craven beat East Duplin 34-29. The victory made it back-to-back wins for the Eagles.
DJ Davis was a one-man wrecking crew for West Craven as he rushed for 217 yards and five touchdowns on only 14 carries, and also threw for 158 yards on 16 of 24 attempts. With that strong performance, Davis is now averaging an impressive 140.5 rushing yards per game.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, West Craven was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 224 rushing yards. That's the most rushing yards they've posted since back in October of 2023.
West Craven wouldn't let East Duplin keep a hold of the ball as they managed to force two fumbles. Behn Dennison was the leader in that area as all came courtesy of his dominant performance. His also deserves a shoutout for his performance on D, picking up a sack, forcing two fumbles, and making eight total tackles.
Meanwhile, New Bern fought the good fight in their overtime game against Northern Guilford on Friday but wound up with a less-than-desirable result. They were just a hair shy of victory and fell 28-27 to the Nighthawks.
West Craven pushed their record up to 2-0 with that victory, which was their fifth straight at home dating back to last season. As for New Bern, their defeat dropped their record down to 1-1.
West Craven was taken down by New Bern 43-14 when the teams last played back in September of 2023. Thankfully for West Craven, Emmanuel Johnson (who threw for 168 yards and two touchdowns while completing 82.6% of his passes, and also rushed for 72 yards and a touchdown on only eight carries) won't be suiting up this time. Will that be enough to change the final result? There's only one way to find out.
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