The Southern Alamance Patriots will look to take advantage of their home-field for the first time this season as they take on the Jordan Falcons at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Southern Alamance will be strutting in after a win while Jordan will be coming in after a defeat.
Southern Alamance is coming home in high spirits after they had to open their season on the road against Graham. Southern Alamance blew past Graham, posting a 63-0 victory on the road. Given the Patriots' advantage in MaxPreps' North Carolina football rankings (they are ranked 45th, while the Red Devils are ranked 402nd), the result on Friday wasn't entirely unexpected.
Nathan McNeal went supernova for Southern Alamance, rushing for 21 yards and two touchdowns, while also throwing for 53 yards and a touchdown.
McNeal wasn't the only one working in the rushing yards department: Southern Alamance was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 405 rushing yards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now rushed for at least 219 rushing yards in 11 consecutive matches dating back to last season.
Meanwhile, Jordan couldn't capitalize on their home-field advantage in their season opener. They received a blow on Friday as they fell 43-24 to Cardinal Gibbons. The Falcons haven't had much luck with the Crusaders recently, as the team's come up short the last three times they've met.
Southern Alamance came up short against Jordan when the teams last played back in August of 2023, falling 42-29. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Jordan's Amareon Blue, who rushed for 182 yards and three touchdowns while picking up 10.1 yards per carry, and also caught a touchdown. Now that Southern Alamance knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? There's only one way to find out.
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