The Tamaqua Blue Raiders will face off against the Bangor Slaters at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Tamaqua has five straight wins, Bangor has six straight losses), but none of that matters once you're on the field.
Tamaqua is headed in fresh off scoring the most points they have all season. They blew past Salisbury Township 49-7 on the road on Friday. The result was nothing new for the Blue Raiders, who have now won three games by 31 points or more so far this season.
Tamaqua had a senior duo take command as Luke Kane rushed for 101 yards and two touchdowns on only eight carries and Victor Schlosser gained 200 total yards and three touchdowns. Schlosser torched the secondary when he pulled down a catch that went for 78 yards. The team also got some help courtesy of Terrence Mcdowell, who rushed for 68 yards and a touchdown.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Tamaqua was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 310 rushing yards. That's the most rushing yards they've managed all season.
Tamaqua's defense made their presence known, laying out the QB nine times. The heavy lifting was done by Jacob Hehn and Tyler Koch, who racked up 4.5 sacks between them.
Meanwhile, it's never fun to lose, and it's even less fun to lose 49-7, which was the final score in Bangor's tilt against Blue Mountain on Friday. While losing is never fun, the Slaters can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Pennsylvania football rankings (they are ranked 408th, while the Eagles are ranked 67th).
Tamaqua's victory was their third straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 5-0. As for Bangor, their defeat dropped their record down to 0-5.
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