The Tremont Turks will square off against the Clinton Maroons at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. The two teams have had a bumpy ride up to this point with five consecutive losses for Tremont and 13 for Clinton dating back to last season.
Tremont made up a huge gap compared to their last game against Eureka, but they still couldn't quite topple them. The Turks fell just short of the Hornets by a score of 10-7 on Friday. The game snapped a strange streak: the last four times these teams have met, it?s been the away team that?s taken home the W.
Meanwhile, Friday just wasn't the day for Clinton's offense. They took a blow against El Paso-Gridley on Friday, falling 64-0. While losing is never fun, the Maroons can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Illinois football rankings (they are ranked 454th, while the Titans are ranked 104th).
Tremont's loss dropped their record down to 1-7. As for Clinton, their defeat dropped their record down to 0-8.
Tremont was taken down by Clinton 49-8 in their previous meeting back in September of 2024. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of the Maroons' Keaton Graves, who threw for 173 yards and three TDs on only 11 passes, and also rushed for 38 yards and one score. Now that the Turks know the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? There's only one way to find out.
Article generated by infoSentience based on data entered on MaxPreps
