Homewood-Flossmoor has gone 8-2 against Sandburg recently and they'll look to pad the win column further on Friday. The Homewood-Flossmoor Vikings will venture away from home to challenge the Sandburg Eagles at 7:00 p.m. Expect the scorekeeper to be kept busy: if their previous games are any indication, the two teams will really light up the scoreboard.
Homewood-Flossmoor's defense heads into the match hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Saturday. They blew past Marian Catholic, posting a 35-0 win on the road. Given the Vikings' advantage in MaxPreps' Illinois football rankings (they are ranked 27th, while the Spartans are ranked 114th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Homewood-Flossmoor can attribute much of their success to Randall "Rj" Mcdonald, who threw for 299 yards and four touchdowns while picking up 12.0 yards per attempt, and Jayden Banks, who gained 136 total yards and two touchdowns. Banks got the majority of those receiving yards when he pulled down a pass and took off for a gain of 55 yards. Myles Ellis was Mcdonald's top target, picking up 139 receiving yards and a touchdown.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Homewood-Flossmoor was moving up and down the field and finished the game with 421 total yards. They easily outclassed their opponents in that department as Marian Catholic only gained 224.
Homewood-Flossmoor's defense made their presence known, laying out the QB three times. In fact, those sacks all came courtesy of defensive juggernaut Jarve Bey Jr..
Meanwhile, there's no place like home for Sandburg, who bounced back after a loss on the road last Friday. They claimed a resounding 43-12 victory over Oak Forest at home.
The win made it two in a row for Homewood-Flossmoor and bumps their season record up to 2-0. As for Sandburg, the victory also got them back to even at 1-1.
Homewood-Flossmoor couldn't quite finish off Sandburg in their previous meeting back in September of 2023 and fell 31-28. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Sandburg's Luke Basiorka, who rushed for 146 yards and a touchdown. Now that Homewood-Flossmoor knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? There's only one way to find out.
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