After starting their season with three straight games on the road, Joliet is finally coming home. They will look to take advantage of their home-field as they take on Red Lodge/Roberts at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. The two teams are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.
Joliet's defense heads into the match hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Friday. They really took it to Baker for the full four quarters, racking up a 46-0 win on the road. The matchup was all but wrapped up at the end of the third, by which point the J Hawks had established a 40 point advantage.
Jake Cook went supernova for Joliet, rushing for 149 yards and four touchdowns on only 15 carries, while also picking up 79 receiving yards and a touchdown. Cook torched the secondary when he pulled down a catch that went for 79 yards. Another player making a difference was Kaden Juhnke, who threw for 251 yards and two touchdowns while completing 83.3% of his passes.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Joliet was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 238 rushing yards. That's the most rushing yards they've posted since back in September of 2023.
Meanwhile, a well-balanced attack led Red Lodge/Roberts over Colstrip in every quarter on their way to victory on Friday. Given that consistent dominance, it should come as no surprise that Red Lodge/Roberts blew Colstrip out of the water with a 56-0 final score.
Joliet's victory bumped their record up to 3-0. As for Red Lodge/Roberts, they pushed their record up to 1-0 with that win, which was their seventh straight at home dating back to last season.
Joliet was dealt a bruising 40-0 defeat at the hands of Red Lodge/Roberts in their previous meeting back in September of 2023. Will Joliet have more luck at home instead of on the road? Come back here after the game to get an analysis of the match and other football content.
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