The Celeste Blue Devils will venture away from home to challenge the Maud Cardinals at 7:30 p.m. on Friday. Both come into the match bolstered by wins in their previous matches.
Celeste took a loss when they played away from home two weeks ago, but their home fans gave them all the motivation they needed on Friday. They managed a 26-20 victory over Bowie. The Blue Devils pushed the score to 26-6 by the end of the third, a deficit the Pirates cut but never quite recovered from.
Brock Stewart had a dynamite game for Celeste, rushing for 148 yards and three touchdowns on only 12 carries. Those 148 rushing yards gave Stewart a new career-high. The team also got some help courtesy of Case Reisor, who rushed for 74 yards and a touchdown.
He was just one part of a punishing run game: Celeste was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 264 rushing yards. That's a new trend for them: they were averaging 68.8 rushing yards per game earlier this season, but in their last four matchups they've averaged 218.5.
Meanwhile, Maud had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 15 points) and they went ahead and made it three two weeks ago. They enjoyed a cozy 28-12 win over the Pirates.
Celeste's victory ended a three-game drought at home and bumped them up to 2-6. As for Maud, their win bumped their record up to 3-4.
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