Tolar has been on the road for two straight, but on Friday they'll finally head home. They will challenge the Bells Panthers at 7:00 p.m. Both squads will be entering this one on the heels of a big victory.
Tolar is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Friday. They claimed a resounding 49-14 win over Millsap. Given the Rattlers' advantage in MaxPreps' Texas football rankings (they are ranked 281st, while the Bulldogs are ranked 664th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Peyton Brown was his usual excellent self, rushing for 191 yards and four touchdowns while picking up 9.1 yards per carry. His rushing production has been exceptional recently as that marked his fourth straight game with at least 112 rushing yards. The team also got some help courtesy of Dacen Watkins, who picked up 48 receiving yards and a touchdown.
Meanwhile, Bells had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 35.5 points) and they went ahead and made it three on Thursday. They breezed by the Lions to the tune of 44-0.
Bells can attribute much of their success to Tucker Crites, who rushed for 102 yards and two touchdowns on only five carries, and Easton Branam, who rushed for 128 yards on only ten carries. Those 128 rushing yards gave Branam a new career-high.
Bells is on a roll lately: they've won five of their last six contests, which provided a nice bump to their 7-4 record this season. Those good results were due in large part to their defensive effort, having only surrendered 11.0 points per game. As for Tolar, their victory bumped their record up to 10-1.
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