After each having a week off, the Pierce County Bears and the Cook Hornets will shake off the cobwebs and square off against one another at 7:30 p.m. on Friday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Pierce County has 14 straight victories, Cook has four straight defeats), but none of that matters once you're on the field.
Pierce County will head into Friday's matchup hoping to keep the good times rolling: they proved they can win big back in September (they won by 41) but last Friday they proved they can win the close ones too. They skirted past Brooks County 17-14. The 17-point effort marked the Bears' lowest-scoring game of the season, but in the end it didn't matter.
Meanwhile, Cook lost to Irwin County at home by a 48-33 margin last Friday.
Pierce County pushed their record up to 5-0 with the win, which was their sixth straight on the road dating back to last season. As for Cook, their loss dropped their record down to 2-4.
Everything came up roses for Pierce County against Cook in their previous meeting back in September of 2015, as the squad secured a 41-14 victory. Will Pierce County repeat their success, or does Cook have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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