Elizabethton has played every game this season on their home field, but they'll have to hit the road on Friday. They will head out to face off against the Daniel Boone Trailblazers at 7:00 p.m. Elizabethton will be strutting in after a win while Daniel Boone will be coming in after a loss.
Last Friday, Elizabethton really took it to Cherokee for the full four quarters, racking up a 41-13 victory at home. The contest was all but wrapped up at the end of the third, by which point the Fighting Cyclones had established a 22 point advantage.
Jaiden Wallin had an outrageously good game as he rushed for 144 yards and two touchdowns while picking up 9.0 yards per carry. The dominant performance gave him a new career-high in rushing yards.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Elizabethton was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 345 rushing yards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now rushed for at least 150 rushing yards in three consecutive games.
Meanwhile, Daniel Boone was not able to break out of their rough patch on Friday as the team picked up their eighth straight defeat. They had to suffer through a 38-0 loss at the hands of Morristown-Hamblen West. While losing is never fun, the Trailblazers can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Tennessee football rankings (they are ranked 262nd, while the Trojans are ranked 95th).
Elizabethton now has a winning record of 2-1. As for Daniel Boone, their loss dropped their record down to 0-4.
Elizabethton came up short against Daniel Boone when the teams last played back in September of 2022, falling 7-0. Can Elizabethton avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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