South Spencer is 0-10 against Heritage Hills since October of 2014 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Friday. The South Spencer Rebels will take on the Heritage Hills Patriots at 7:00 p.m.
Last Friday, South Spencer came up short against North Posey and fell 28-16. While losing is never fun, the Rebels can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Indiana football rankings (they are ranked 225th, while the Vikings are ranked 92nd).
Meanwhile, there's no place like home for Heritage Hills, who bounced back after a loss on the road last Friday. They took their match at home on Friday with ease, bagging a 38-0 victory over Boonville. The score at the end of the third wound up being the final score as the Patriots just coasted through the last quarter.
Jett Goldsberry and Trey Willard were among the main playmakers for Heritage Hills as the former threw for 155 yards and two touchdowns while completing 72.2% of his passes and the latter rushed for 87 yards and two touchdowns on only nine carries. The dominant performance gave him a new career- in rushing yards.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Heritage Hills was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 230 rushing yards. They easily outclassed their opponents in that department as Boonville only rushed for 113.
This is the second loss in a row for South Spencer and nudges their season record down to 1-2. As for Heritage Hills, they pushed their record up to 2-1 with that win, which was their eighth straight at home dating back to last season.
South Spencer was taken down by Heritage Hills 40-0 in their previous meeting back in September of 2023. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Goldsberry, who rushed for 100 yards and two touchdowns on only seven carries, and also threw for 132 yards and two touchdowns while completing 77.8% of his passes. Now that South Spencer knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? Check MaxPreps.com after the match to find out.
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