Madison is 1-8 against Valley View since September of 2014 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Friday. The Madison Mohawks will be playing in front of their home fans against the Valley View Spartans at 7:00 p.m.
Valley View is facing Madison at the wrong time: Madison suffered their first home loss of the season on Friday and they're likely out for redemption. They were outmatched by the Eagles at home and fell 34-3. While losing is never fun, the Mohawks can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Ohio football rankings (they are ranked 408th, while the Eagles are ranked 196th).
Meanwhile, Valley View had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 28.5 points) and they went ahead and made it three on Saturday. They took down the Lumberjacks 20-6. The Spartans pushed the score to 20-0 by the end of the third, a deficit the Lumberjacks cut but never quite recovered from.
It was another big night for Anthony Valenti, who rushed for 147 yards and two touchdowns on only 11 carries. He got the majority of those rushing yards when he took off on a run that went for an incredible 75 yards. Another player making a difference was Brodie Hopkins, who gained 160 total yards and a touchdown.
Valley View was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 255 rushing yards. That's a new trend for them: they were averaging 0 rushing yards per game earlier this season, but in their last three games they've averaged 299.
This is the second loss in a row for Madison and nudges their season record down to 3-3. As for Valley View, their win bumped their record up to 4-2.
Madison was dealt a bruising 49-6 loss at the hands of Valley View in their previous meeting back in September of 2023. That contest was all but decided by halftime, at which point Madison was down 28-0.
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