After each having a week off, the Clay Blue Devils and the St. Augustine Yellow Jackets will shake off the cobwebs and challenge one another at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Both are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.
Clay will roll into the match after a wild two-game stretch: they only put up seven points back in September, then bounced right back against Ridgeview last Friday. Clay really took it to Ridgeview for the full four quarters, racking up a 45-6 victory on the road. The contest was all but wrapped up at the end of the third, by which point the Blue Devils had established a 32 point advantage.
Clay got their win on the backs of several key players, but it was Landon Martin out in front who threw for 122 yards and three touchdowns, and also rushed for 40 yards and a touchdown. Antonio Thomas was in the mix too, providing Clay with two touchdowns.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Clay was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 343 rushing yards. That's the most rushing yards they've posted since the start of last season.
Meanwhile, St. Augustine made easy work of Columbia two weeks ago and carried off a 27-6 victory. The Yellow Jackets' offense checked out after the first half but had enough points banked to take the game anyway.
St. Augustine's win was a true team effort, with many players turning in solid performances. Perhaps the best among them was Locklan Hewlett, who threw for 267 yards and three touchdowns. Carl Jenkins Jr. was Hewlett's top target, picking up 69 receiving yards and two touchdowns.
St. Augustine didn't go easy on the quarterback and picked off two passes before the game was over. The picks came courtesy of Christian Coleman and Darrell Jenkins.
The victory snapped Clay's losing streak at three games and leaves them with a 2-4 record. As for St. Augustine, their win was their eighth straight on the road dating back to last season, which pushed their record up to 4-1.
Clay was dealt a bruising 49-9 loss at the hands of St. Augustine in their previous meeting back in October of 2023. Can Clay avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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