The Liberty-Eylau Leopards have the luxury of staying home for another week and will welcome the Tatum Eagles at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Both come into the match bolstered by wins in their previous matches.
Liberty-Eylau will head into Friday's game on the come-up: they were handed a 38-point loss in their previous outing, but they didn't let that bad energy affect their game against Bullard last Friday. Liberty-Eylau narrowly escaped with a win as the squad sidled past Bullard 27-24. Given the Leopards' advantage in MaxPreps' Texas football rankings (they are ranked 194th, while the Panthers are ranked 557th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Liberty-Eylau can attribute much of their success to Arian Taylor, who rushed for 140 yards, and Trip Baysinger, who rushed for 36 yards and two touchdowns.
Liberty-Eylau wouldn't let Bullard keep a hold of the ball as they managed to force two fumbles. Jaquan Johnson was the leader in that area as all came courtesy of his dominant performance.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Tatum). They blew past Sabine, posting a 63-0 victory at home. The Eagles might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won three contests by 20 points or more this season.
Liberty-Eylau's win bumped their record up to 3-1. As for Tatum, they pushed their record up to 4-1 with the victory, which was their third straight at home.
Liberty-Eylau strolled past Tatum in their previous matchup back in September of 2015 by a score of 50-33. Will Liberty-Eylau repeat their success, or does Tatum have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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