The Manistee Mariners will face off against the Ludington Orioles at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Manistee has a tough task ahead: they'll enter the game with three straight losses, while Ludington will come in with five straight wins.
Manistee's offense might be in the hot seat on Friday considering what happened against Whitehall on Friday. They had to suffer through a 46-0 loss at the hands of the Vikings. While losing is never fun, the Mariners can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Michigan football rankings (they are ranked 202nd, while the Vikings are ranked 32nd).
Meanwhile, Ludington put their dominant defense on display in the team's third consecutive shutout on Friday. They blew past Montague, posting a 49-0 victory. Fans of the Orioles have seen this all before: every one of the games they've played this season has ended in a blowout of 20+ points.
Ludington's win bumped their record up to 5-0. As for Manistee, they now have a losing record of 2-3.
Manistee and Ludington were almost perfectly matched up when the teams last played back in October of 2024, but Manistee suffered an agonizing 39-38 defeat. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of the Orioles' Cameron Gunsell, who rushed for 201 yards and three scores, and also threw for 152 yards and a pair of TDs while completing 76.5% of his passes. Now that the Mariners know 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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