The Ashford Yellowjackets will challenge the Pike County Bulldogs at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Ashford will be strutting in after a victory while Pike County will be coming in after a loss.
Ashford is headed in fresh off scoring the most points they have all season. They blew past Geneva 44-7 at home on Friday. The Yellowjackets pushed the score to 44-0 by the end of the third, a deficit the Panthers cut but never quite recovered from.
Ashford got their win on the backs of several key players, but it was Braylon Bigham out in front who rushed for 111 yards and a touchdown. The dominant performance gave Bigham a new career-high in rushing yards. The team also got some help courtesy of Coy Paramore, who rushed for 51 yards and a touchdown on only five carries.
He was just one part of a punishing run game: Ashford was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 272 rushing yards. That's the most rushing yards they've managed all season.
Ashford's defense was in the mix too, especially the secondary: they snagged two passes before it was all said and done. The picks came courtesy of Zorren Peterson and Bigham.
Meanwhile, Friday just wasn't the day for Pike County's offense. They received a blow on Friday as they fell 16-0 to Opp. The Bulldogs haven't had much luck with the Bobcats recently, as the team's come up short the last two times they've met.
The victory made it two in a row for Ashford and bumps their season record up to 2-2. As for Pike County, their defeat dropped their record down to 1-3.
Things could have been worse for Ashford, but things could have been a whole lot better as they took a 28-13 loss to Pike County in their previous matchup back in September of 2023. Can Ashford avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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