After each having a week off, the Sprayberry Yellow Jackets and the Lassiter Trojans will shake off the cobwebs and challenge one another at 7:30 p.m. on Friday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Sprayberry has four straight wins, Lassiter has five straight defeats), but none of that matters once you're on the field.
Sprayberry will head into Friday's match hoping to keep the good times rolling: they proved they can win big on October 4th (they won by 20) but last Friday they proved they can win the close ones too. They had just enough and edged River Ridge out 30-27.
The match pitted two dominant signal callers against one another in Jaden Duckett and Ethan Spector. Duckett had a great game and threw for 325 yards and a touchdown while picking up 16.3 yards per attempt. Meanwhile, Spector was balling out in the loss, throwing for 263 yards and two touchdowns on only 19 passes, while also punching in a rushing score.
Meanwhile, Lassiter and Riverwood met for a duel two weeks ago where Lassiter had to take the L. Lassiter fell 24-16 to Riverwood.
Most of the squad's points came courtesy of special teams, who contributed ten in total. All those points came courtesy of Cavan Jarrell: he added nine points with three field goals, and another on an extra-point kick.
Sprayberry pushed their record up to 7-1 with the victory, which was their fourth straight at home. As for Lassiter, their loss dropped their record down to 2-6.
Everything came up roses for Sprayberry against Lassiter in their previous meeting back in October of 2023, as the squad secured a 53-13 win. One of the biggest obstacles the team faced in that game was Lassiter's Levi Mundt, who rushed for 181 yards and two touchdowns, and also threw for 132 yards on 12 of 25 attempts. Now that he's got a second chance to win this matchup, will Sprayberry still be able to contain Mundt? There's only one way to find out.
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