The Grafton Gators are taking a road trip to challenge the Nashoba Regional Wolves at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Grafton will be strutting in after a win while Nashoba Regional will be coming in after a defeat.
While Gators fans will have to keep waiting for their squad to come home, they shouldn't be too worried about the road trip considering the result of Friday's season opener. They really took it to Ashland for the full four quarters, racking up a 31-0 victory on the road. The Gators pushed the score to 25-0 by the end of the third, a deficit the Clockers had little chance of recovering from.
Finn Gilmore was nothing short of spectacular: he rushed for 131 yards and three touchdowns. His rushing production has been exceptional recently as that marked his sixth straight game with at least 109 rushing yards dating back to last season. The team also got some help courtesy of Owen Belanger, who rushed for 67 yards and two touchdowns.
Belanger wasn't the only one working in the rushing yards department: Grafton was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 265 rushing yards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now rushed for at least 163 rushing yards in nine consecutive games dating back to last season.
Meanwhile, Nashoba Regional was not able to break out of their rough patch on Friday as the team picked up their fifth straight loss. They took a 19-7 hit to the loss column at the hands of Algonquin Regional.
Everything came up roses for Grafton against Nashoba Regional when the teams last played back in September of 2023 as the team secured a 35-3 win. In that match, Grafton amassed a halftime lead of 21-0, an impressive feat they'll look to repeat on Friday.
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