New Castle and Yorktown are an even 5-5 against one another since September of 2014, but not for long. The New Castle Trojans will look to defend their home field on Friday against the Yorktown Tigers at 7:00 p.m. New Castle will be hoping to continue their three-game streak of scoring more points each match than the last.
New Castle is headed in fresh off scoring the most points they have all season. They blew past Shelbyville 28-7 on Friday.
New Castle can attribute much of their success to Carson Bell, who threw for 184 yards and three touchdowns while completing 75% of his passes, and Caleb Clapp, who rushed for 118 yards and a touchdown. The dominant performance gave Bell a new career-high in rushing yards.
New Castle wouldn't let Shelbyville keep a hold of the ball as they managed to force two fumbles. New Castle can thank Trent Supenger and Cade Logston for forcing both of them. Logston also set a new season high mark in receiving yards with 128.
Meanwhile, Yorktown didn't have too much trouble with Delta at home on Friday as they won 28-14. The Tigers pushed the score to 28-0 by the end of the third, a deficit the Eagles cut but never quite recovered from.
The critical scores for Yorktown came from Noah Long, Ephraim Daugherty, and Tanner Griffey. Sam Tokar was another key signal caller, throwing for 176 yards and two touchdowns on only 15 passes.
Yorktown's defense was in the mix too, especially the secondary: they snagged three passes before it was all said and done. The picks came courtesy of Griffey and Julian Mckay.
The win got New Castle back to even at 2-2. As for Yorktown, their victory bumped their record up to 3-1.
New Castle came up short against Yorktown in their previous meeting back in September of 2023, falling 34-28. Thankfully for New Castle, Ayden Ewing (who rushed for 205 yards and two touchdowns while picking up 12.8 yards per carry) 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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