The Franklin Parish Patriots will face off against the Calvary Baptist Academy Cavaliers at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Expect the scorekeeper to be kept busy: if their previous games are any indication, both will really light up the scoreboard.
Last Friday, everything went Franklin Parish's way against St. Frederick as Franklin Parish made off with a 42-21 victory. The win made it back-to-back victories for the Patriots.
Dezyrian Ellis went supernova for Franklin Parish, rushing for 42 yards and two touchdowns, while also throwing for 137 yards and two touchdowns. Another player making a difference was Daniel Neal, who rushed for 139 yards and a touchdown on only 14 carries.
Franklin Parish wouldn't let St. Frederick keep a hold of the ball as they managed to force two fumbles. Franklin Parish can thank Kenyon Martin and Jacolby Brooks for forcing both of them. Franklin Parish got some further help from Carl Williams: he made nine total tackles (1.0 for loss) and snagging an interception.
Meanwhile, after a string of 15 wins dating back to last season, Calvary Baptist Academy's good fortune finally ran out on Friday. They fell to Neville 42-38.
Loss or not, Calvary Baptist Academy got some senior leadership from Abram Wardell and Kolby Thomas. Wardell threw for 376 yards and six touchdowns while completing 75% of his passes, while Thomas. picked up 242 receiving yards and four touchdowns. The dominant performance gave Wardell a new career-high in rushing yards. Kaleb Tucker was another key player, picking up 114 receiving yards and a touchdown.
Franklin Parish's win bumped their record up to 2-0. As for Calvary Baptist Academy, their defeat ended a nine-game streak of wins at home dating back to last season and dropped them to 1-1.
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