The Forest Park Trojans will look to defend their home field on Saturday against the Bellaire Eagles at 1:00 p.m. Forest Park knows how to get points on the board -- the squad has finished with 31 points or more in their past nine matches -- so hopefully Bellaire likes a good challenge.
Forest Park is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Michigan's top teams: North Central, who was ranked eighth in their home state at the time (Forest Park was ranked ninth). Forest Park fell 45-34 to North Central last Friday. The Trojans have struggled against the Jets recently, as the game was their seventh consecutive lost matchup.
Meanwhile, after only 12 points in their last game, Bellaire made sure to put some points up on the board against Posen last Friday. Bellaire took their contest with ease, bagging a 50-22 win over Posen. The Eagles pushed the score to 32-6 by the end of the third, a deficit the Vikings had little chance of recovering from.
The critical scores for Bellaire came from Ben Landis, Ethan Lambert, Corperryale Somers, Junior Wandjison, Drake Koepke, Damon Fox, and Jayden Hanson.
Bellaire didn't go easy on the quarterback and picked off two passes before the game was over. The picks came courtesy of Somers and Koepke.
Forest Park's loss ended a three-game streak of wins at home and dropped them to 8-1. As for Bellaire, they are on a roll lately: they've won four of their last five matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 7-2 record this season.
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