After starting their season with three straight games on the road, Forrest City is finally coming home. They will be defending their home-fieldthey go up against the Rivercrest Colts at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Expect the scorekeeper to be kept busy: if their previous games are any indication, both will really light up the scoreboard.
Forrest City lost 56-36 to Wynne last Friday. Despite running the score up even higher than they did in their prior game back in August (32), the Mustangs still had to take the loss.
Meanwhile, everything went Rivercrest's way against East Poinsett County on Friday as Rivercrest made off with a 56-32 win. Given the Colts' advantage in MaxPreps' Arkansas football rankings (they are ranked 31st, while the Warriors are ranked 97th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Cavonta Washington had a dynamite game for Rivercrest, throwing for 259 yards and six touchdowns while completing 84.2% of his passes, and also rushing for 113 yards and a touchdown on only 15 carries. The dominant performance gave Washington a new career-high in rushing yards. Buddah Harris was Washington's top target, picking up 133 receiving yards and four touchdowns.
Rivercrest wouldn't let East Poinsett County keep a hold of the ball as they managed to force two fumbles. Rivercrest can thank Tekylun Sanders and Jakavion Williams for forcing both of them.
Forrest City's defeat was their seventh straight on the road dating back to last season, which dropped their record down to 0-3. As for Rivercrest, the victory made it two in a row for them and bumps their season record up to 2-0.
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