The Ponca City Wildcats will challenge the Putnam City North Panthers at 7:00 p.m. on Friday.
It's never fun to lose, and it's even less fun to lose 59-14, which was the final score in Ponca City's tilt against Muskogee on Friday. The loss continues a trend for the Wildcats in their matchups with the Roughers: they've now lost four in a row.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Putnam City North). They blew past Putnam City West 49-0 at home on Friday. The Panthers might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won three contests by 22 points or more this season.
Milton Alford was his usual excellent self, rushing for 166 yards and four touchdowns on only 13 carries. The dominant performance gave him a new career-high in rushing yards. Kyran Axtell was in the mix as well, providing Putnam City North with a touchdown.
Putnam City North's defense stepped up as well, laying out the QB three times. In fact, those sacks all came courtesy of defensive juggernaut Kelvin Tucker.
Ponca City's defeat dropped their record down to 1-3. As for Putnam City North, the victory made it two in a row for them and bumps their season record up to 3-1.
Ponca City didn't have too much breathing room in their match against Putnam City North in their previous meeting back in October of 2023, but they still walked away with a 37-31 win. One of the biggest obstacles trying to stand in the way of that victory was Putnam City North's Camarion Jones, who rushed for 77 yards and two touchdowns, and also picked up 50 receiving yards and a touchdown. Now that he won't be playing on Friday, will it be easier for Ponca City to walk away with another win? There's only one way to find out.
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