The Faith Christian Eagles are taking a road trip to face off against the Tri-County Cavaliers at 7:00 p.m. on Friday.
Faith Christian's offense might be in the hot seat on Friday considering what happened against Dugger Union on Saturday. They took a blow against the Bulldogs, falling 38-0. While losing is never fun, the Eagles can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Indiana football rankings (they are ranked 306th, while the Bulldogs are ranked fourth).
Meanwhile, Tri-County was fully in charge on Friday, breezing past South Newton 34-6 on the road. Considering the Cavaliers have won three games by more than 23 points this season, Friday's blowout was nothing new.
Jonathan Pearson and Ayden Justice were among the main playmakers for Tri-County as the former rushed for 79 yards and a touchdown on only ten carries and the latter rushed for 70 yards and a touchdown on only seven carries. Justice didn't just play on offense: he also made five total tackles and defended two passes.
Tri-County wouldn't let South Newton keep a hold of the ball as they managed to force three fumbles. Tri-County can thank Kevin Martinez and Gabe Sanders for forcing all of them. Martinez also set a new season high mark in rushing yards with 150.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Tri-County was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 314 rushing yards. That's the most rushing yards they've posted was before the start of last season.
This is the second loss in a row for Faith Christian and nudges their season record down to 2-3. As for Tri-County, the win made it two in a row for them and bumps their season record up to 3-2.
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