Fort Wayne Bishop Dwenger has won four straight games at home, while East Noble has won four straight on the road, but those streaks won't matter much on Friday. The Fort Wayne Bishop Dwenger Saints will welcome the East Noble Knights at 7:00 p.m. Both come into the game bolstered by wins in their previous matches.
Fort Wayne Bishop Dwenger is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Friday. They enjoyed a cozy 25-6 victory over Fort Wayne Wayne. Given the Saints' advantage in MaxPreps' Indiana football rankings (they are ranked 35th, while the Generals are ranked 91st), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
This one was won in the trenches and the lion's share of the credit has to go to Augustus Tippmann and Aj Shefferly. Tippmann rushed for 123 yards and a touchdown while Shefferly rushed for 37 yards and two touchdowns. The dominant performance gave Tippmann a new career-high in rushing yards.
Fort Wayne Bishop Dwenger was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 223 rushing yards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now rushed for at least 223 rushing yards in three consecutive contests.
Meanwhile, East Noble hadn't done well against Leo recently (they were 2-7 in their previous nine matchups), but they didn't let the past get in their way on Friday. East Noble's defense stepped up to hand Leo a 21-0 shutout. The Knights might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won eight matches by 21 points or more this season.
The match pitted two dominant backs against one another in Dylan Krehl and Nathan Foster. Krehl had a great game and rushed for 146 yards. Meanwhile, Foster was balling out in the loss, rushing for 146 yards while picking up 8.1 yards per carry.
One reason for the win was East Noble's imposing defense, which managed to get into the backfield for four sacks. Gavin Sparkman was especially locked on to Leo's QB and sacked him twice. Sparkman has been hot recently, having also posted five or more total tackles the last three times he's played.
Fort Wayne Bishop Dwenger has been performing well recently as they've won five of their last six matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 6-5 record this season. Those victories were due in large part to their defensive effort, having only surrendered 8.2 points per game. As for East Noble, their record now sits at 10-1.
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