The Alden-Conger Knights will venture away from home to take on the Kingsland Knights at 6:45 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.
Alden-Conger's defense heads into the matchup hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed last Friday. They breezed by Southland at home to the tune of 50-0. The victory was a breath of fresh air for the Knights as it put an end to their four-game losing streak dating back to last season.
Meanwhile, everything came up roses for Kingsland on the road against Lanesboro on Friday as the team secured a 67-7 win. The match was all but wrapped up at the end of the third, by which point the Knights had established a 55 point advantage.
Kaaleem Reiland went supernova for Kingsland, rushing for 135 yards and three touchdowns on only five carries. Reiland's longest rush was for an impressive 54 yards, which helps to explain his lofty yards per carry total. The team also got some help courtesy of Zach Reiland, who rushed for 97 yards and two touchdowns.
He was just one part of a punishing run game: Kingsland was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 406 rushing yards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now rushed for at least 197 rushing yards in five consecutive contests dating back to last season.
The victory got Alden-Conger back to even at 1-1. As for Kingsland, they pushed their record up to 2-1 with that win, which was their fifth straight on the road dating back to last season.
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