The Jasper County Hurricanes will venture away from home to challenge Utopian Academy for the Arts at 7:30 p.m. on Friday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Jasper County has four straight victories, Utopian Academy for the Arts has seven straight losses), but none of that matters once you're on the field.
Jasper County is headed in fresh off scoring the most points they have all season. They simply couldn't be stopped on Friday as they easily beat Towers 43-8 at home. The high-flying offensive performance was a huge turnaround for the Hurricanes considering their ten-point performance the matchup before.
Jalen Stewart was his usual excellent self, rushing for 145 yards and two touchdowns while picking up 8.1 yards per carry. The dominant performance gave him a new career-high in rushing yards.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Jasper County was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 262 rushing yards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now rushed for at least 189 rushing yards in four consecutive contests.
Meanwhile, it's never fun to lose, and it's even less fun to lose 65-6, which was the final score in Utopian Academy for the Arts' tilt against Social Circle on Friday.
Jasper County's win was their third straight at home, which pushed their record up to 4-1. As for Utopian Academy for the Arts, their defeat dropped their record down to 0-5.
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