The Clay Center Tigers are headed away from home for the first time to challenge the Louisburg Wildcats at 7:00 p.m. on Friday.
Clay Center is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Kansas' top teams: Southeast of Saline, who was ranked 15th in their home state at the time (Clay Center was ranked 21st). Clay Center fell just short of Southeast of Saline by a score of 22-20 on Friday. The defeat continues a trend for the Tigers in their matchups with the Trojans: they've now lost four in a row.
Although Clay Center took the loss, they still got scores from Jace Weller, Cole Pladson, and Weston Hammond.
Meanwhile, everything went Louisburg's way against Paola on Friday as Louisburg made off with a 34-13 victory. Given the Wildcats' advantage in MaxPreps' Kansas football rankings (they are ranked 31st, while the Panthers are ranked 109th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Clay Center's loss dropped their record down to 1-1. As for Louisburg, their win was their fourth straight on the road dating back to last season, which pushed their record up to 2-0.
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