The Holton Wildcats will challenge the Leavenworth PIONEERS at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. The two teams are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.
Holton will roll into the game after a wild two-game stretch: they only put up seven points two weeks ago, then bounced right back against Hiawatha on Friday. Holton put the hurt on Hiawatha with a sharp 35-14 victory. The score at the end of the third wound up being the final score as the Wildcats just coasted through the last quarter.
Holton's success was the result of a balanced attack that saw several players step up, but Korban Wilson led the charge by rushing for 131 yards and two touchdowns while picking up 8.2 yards per carry. Those 131 rushing yards gave Wilson a new career-high. The team also got some help courtesy of Kyler Jackson, who rushed for 188 yards while picking up 9.9 yards per carry.
He was just one part of a punishing run game: Holton was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 527 rushing yards. That's the most rushing yards they've managed all season.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Leavenworth). They blew past West, posting a 57-0 win at home. Perhaps unsurprisingly given the team's high-flying offense, the game also marked the team's biggest victory of the season.
Holton's win was their third straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 4-3. As for Leavenworth, they are on a roll lately: they've won four of their last five contests, which provided a nice bump to their 4-3 record this season.
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