The Boys Town Cowboys will head out to take on the Fort Calhoun Pioneers at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Expect the scorekeeper to be kept busy: if their previous games are any indication, the two teams will really light up the scoreboard.
If Boys Town beats Fort Calhoun with 50 points on Friday, it's going to be the team's new lucky number: they've won their past two contests with that exact score. Boys Town took their match at home on Friday with ease, bagging a 50-14 win over Syracuse. Fans of the Cowboys have seen this all before: every one of the games they've played this season has ended in a blowout of 20+ point.
Nyree Poteet was nothing short of spectacular: he rushed for 113 yards and a touchdown, and also threw for 82 yards and a touchdown on only six passes. The dominant performance gave him a new career- in total yards.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Boys Town was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 391 rushing yards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now rushed for at least 204 rushing yards in five consecutive matchups dating back to last season.
Boys Town's defense made their presence known, laying out the QB four times. Messiah Green was particularly dangerous to the passing game, picking up two sackshimself.
Meanwhile, you can't lose the game if you win every quarter, and that was precisely Fort Calhoun's strategy against Roncalli Catholic on Friday. Given that consistent dominance, it should come as no surprise that Fort Calhoun blew Roncalli Catholic out of the water with a 42-6 final score. The Pioneers pushed the score to 35-6 by the end of the third, a deficit the Crimson Pride had little chance of recovering from.
Kaiden Rodriguez had a dynamite game for Fort Calhoun, rushing for 122 yards and three touchdowns. With that strong performance, Rodriguez is now averaging an impressive 100.5 rushing yards per game. Another back making a difference was Blake Welchert, who gained 84 total yards and a touchdown.
Boys Town's record is now 3-0. As for Fort Calhoun, their victory ended a three-game drought at home dating back to last season and bumped them up to 2-0.
Boys Town and Fort Calhoun were neck-and-neck when the teams last played back in October of 2023, but Boys Town came up empty-handed after a 30-29 loss. Can Boys Town avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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