The Cottonwood Bears and the Carroll Eagles will face off at 7:00 p.m. on December 18th without much rest after finishing up games yesterday. Cottonwood will have to bring their A-game into this one, as they are staring down a pretty big deficit in the MaxPreps Alabama Rankings (they are ranked 267th, while Carroll is ranked 56th).
Last Friday, Cottonwood beat Ashford 50-41.
Meanwhile, Carroll waltzed into their match Friday with two straight wins but they left with three. They came out on top in a nail-biter against Pike County and snuck past 50-47.
The win got Cottonwood back to even at 5-5. As for Carroll, they pushed their record up to 9-2 with that win, which was their third straight on the road.
Cottonwood was dealt a bruising 68-30 defeat at the hands of Carroll when the teams last played back in November of 2022. Can Cottonwood avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.