The Plainview Pirates will face off against the Alma Cardinals at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday. Both squads will be entering this one on the heels of a big victory.
Alma will be up against a hot Plainview squad: the team just extended their winning streak to five. The Pirates simply couldn't be stopped on Thursday as they easily beat Lutheran-Northeast 78-8. The Pirates pushed the score to 63-8 by the end of the third, a deficit the Eagles had no chance of recovering from.
Gage Walton
| 10/16/25 @ Lutheran-Northeast | 3 |
| 10/10/25 vs Stanton | 2 |
| 10/03/25 @ Laurel-Concord-Coleridge | 5 |
| 09/26/25 @ Summerland [Clearwater/Ewing/Orchard] | 2 |
| 09/19/25 vs Elkhorn Valley | 5 |
Multiple players turned in solid performances to lead Plainview to victory, but perhaps none more so than Gage Walton, who rushed for 55 yards and three scores on only five carries. Walton has been hot, having posted two or more rushing touchdowns the last five times he's played. The team also got some help courtesy of Kobe Maertins, who rushed for 65 yards and one TD.
They were just one part of a punishing run game: Plainview was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 301 rushing yards. That's the most rushing yards they've posted since back in November of 2024.
Plainview didn't go easy on the quarterback and picked off three passes before the game was over. It was truly a group effort as Braedon Kment, Colt Hoffman, and Kohen Lingenfelter picked up one apiece.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Alma). They really took it to Hi-Line [Eustis-Farnam/Elwood] for the full four quarters, racking up a 64-34 win. With the Cardinals ahead 42-14 at the half, the contest was all but over already.
Alma's win came from a few key players Plainview will need to keep an eye on. One of the most notable was Zavier Mitchell, who picked up 100 receiving yards and a pair of touchdowns, and also threw for nine yards and one TD. The dominant performance also gave him a new career-high in receiving touchdowns (two). Grady Faimon was in the mix too, providing Alma with one score.
Plainview's record now sits at 7-1. As for Alma, the victory got them back to even at 4-4.
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