The McCallum Knights are taking a road trip to take on the Bastrop Bears at 7:30 p.m. on Friday. Hopefully McCallum focused on turnovers this week as the team gave up four on Friday.
McCallum will head out to face Bastrop after giving up their first home loss of the season on Friday. McCallum came up short against Elgin, falling 50-26.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Bastrop). They blew past Crockett, posting a 69-6 victory on the road. Given the Bears' advantage in MaxPreps' Texas football rankings (they are ranked 324th, while the Cougars are ranked 1022nd), the result on Thursday wasn't entirely unexpected.
Bastrop relied on the efforts of Weston Nielsen, who threw for 150 yards and two touchdowns while completing 90.9% of his passes, and Ladainian Merino, who rushed for 73 yards and two touchdowns on only five carries. The dominant performance also gave Nielsen a new career-high in rushing yards. Another passer making a difference was Quintaelyn Joyner, who threw for 100 yards and a touchdown.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Bastrop was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 235 rushing yards. That's the most rushing yards they've managed all season.
Bastrop wouldn't let Crockett keep a hold of the ball as they managed to force two fumbles. Bastrop can thank Austin Moilan and Zac Wilkinson for forcing both of them.
McCallum's loss dropped their record down to 2-2. As for Bastrop, the win also got them back to even at 2-2.
The upcoming matchup will be a clash of competing strengths. McCallum has deployed a run-first offense that has averaged 160 rushing yards a game. Meanwhile, Bastrop has preferred to attack from the air: they average 293 passing yards per game. So which strategy will prevail on Friday? There's only one way to find out.
McCallum suffered a grim 40-16 defeat to Bastrop in their previous matchup back in October of 2015. Thankfully for McCallum, Jovahn Jones (who rushed for 112 yards and two touchdowns) won't be suiting up this time. Will that be enough to change the final result? There's only one way to find out.
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