The Line Mountain Eagles will face off against the Middletown Blue Raiders at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Line Mountain will be looking to keep their six-game home win streak dating back to last season alive.
Line Mountain is probably headed into the match with a chip on their shoulder considering Steelton-Highspire just ended the team's four-game winning streak on Friday. They fell just short of the Steamrollers by a score of 43-40. Despite running the score up even higher than they did in their prior game last Friday (33), the Eagles still had to take the loss.
Kaiden Maurer put forth a good effort for the losing side as he rushed for 79 yards and two touchdowns, and also threw for 177 yards and a touchdown. The dominant performance gave him a new career-high in rushing yards. Dalton Schadel was another key player, picking up 118 receiving yards and a touchdown.
Meanwhile, while it was all tied up 7-7 at halftime, Middletown was not quite Susquehanna Township's equal in the second half on Friday. They fell 21-14 to the HANNA. While losing is never fun, the Blue Raiders can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Pennsylvania football rankings (they are ranked 288th, while the HANNA are ranked 120th).
Although Middletown took the loss, they still got scores from Luis Roman and Nickayus Zenon.
Line Mountain's defeat dropped their record down to 4-2. As for Middletown, their loss dropped their record down to 3-3.
Line Mountain was able to grind out a solid victory over Middletown when the teams last played back in September of 2023, winning 14-7. Does Line Mountain have another victory up their sleeve, or will Middletown turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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