Wake Forest and Rolesville are an even 5-5 against one another since October of 2018, but not for long. The Wake Forest Cougars will venture away from home to challenge the Rolesville Rams at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Both teams are coming into the game red-hot, with Wake Forest sitting on three straight victories and Rolesville on six.
If Rolesville heads into halftime all tied up, they better play a good second half: that's when Wake Forest took over last week. Wake Forest narrowly escaped with a win as the team sidled past Heritage 13-10. That's two games straight that the Cougars have won by exactly three points.
This one was won in the trenches and the lion's share of the credit has to go to Josh Norris and he. Norris rushed for 32 yards while he rushed for 32 yards.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Rolesville). They simply couldn't be stopped on Friday as they easily beat Knightdale 69-7 on the road. Considering the Rams have won six matchups by more than 34 points this season, Friday's blowout was nothing new.
Wake Forest's victory ended a four-game drought at home dating back to last season and bumped them up to 4-4. As for Rolesville, their win was their eighth straight on the road dating back to last season, which pushed their record up to 7-1.
Wake Forest was dealt a bruising 49-13 loss at the hands of Rolesville in their previous matchup back in November of 2023. Can Wake Forest avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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