After each having a week off, the Trinity Catholic Celtics and the Union County Fightin' Tigers will dust off their jerseys to square off against one another at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Trinity Catholic has a tough task ahead: they'll enter the match with four straight defeats, while Union County will come in with six straight wins.
Trinity Catholic is headed into the matchup out to prove that what happened against Calvary Christian last Friday (when they were outscored in every quarter) was just a minor bump in the road. Trinity Catholic was beaten by Calvary Christian 41-13. While losing is never fun, the Celtics can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Florida football rankings (they are ranked 284th, while the Warriors are ranked 68th).
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Union County). They claimed a resounding 47-14 victory over Zarephath Academy at home. The contest was pretty much decided by the half, when the score had already reached 40-6.
Drew Simmons continued his habit of posting crazy stat lines, rushing for 136 yards and three touchdowns while picking up 8.0 yards per carry. His rushing production has been exceptional recently as that marked his third straight game with at least 121 rushing yards dating back to last season. The team also got some help courtesy of Trenton Klein, who threw for 49 yards and three touchdowns.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Union County was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 336 rushing yards. That's the most rushing yards they've posted since back in September of 2023.
Trinity Catholic's loss dropped their record down to 1-6. As for Union County, they pushed their record up to 6-0 with the win, which was their sixth straight at home dating back to last season.
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