The Greenwood Eagles will welcome the Mauldin Mavericks at 7:30 p.m. on Friday. Greenwood will be looking to keep their three-game home win streak alive.
If Greenwood beats Mauldin with 38 points on Friday, it's going to be the team's new lucky number: they've won their past two games with that exact score. Everything went Greenwood's way against Hillcrest on Friday as Greenwood made off with a 38-16 win. The Eagles pushed the score to 38-8 by the end of the third, a deficit the Rams cut but never quite recovered from.
Meanwhile, Mauldin was not able to break out of their rough patch on Friday as the team picked up their third straight loss. They were outmatched by T.L. Hanna at home and fell 50-16. While losing is never fun, the Mavericks can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' South Carolina football rankings (they are ranked 90th, while the Yellow Jackets are ranked 11th).
Mauldin might have lost, but man, Nehemiah Floyd was a machine: he rushed for 155 yards and a touchdown on only 11 carries. The dominant performance gave Floyd a new career-high in rushing yards.
Greenwood's victory bumped their record up to 7-2. As for Mauldin, their record is now 2-7.
Greenwood was able to grind out a solid win over Mauldin in their previous matchup back in October of 2017, winning 28-21. Will Greenwood repeat their success, or does Mauldin have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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