The Wallace Wildcats will face off against the Paxton Tigers at 6:00 p.m. on Friday. Wallace has given up an average of 31.2 points per game this season, but Friday's game will give them a chance to turn things around.
Wallace is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Nebraska's top teams: Southwest, who was ranked fifth at the time (Wallace was ranked 23rd). The Wildcats took a hard 45-30 fall against the Roughriders on Friday. The loss was the Wildcats' first of the season.
The loss doesn't tell the whole story though, as several players had good games. One of the most active was Ashtin Johns, who rushed for 105 yards and two touchdowns. He got the majority of those rushing yards when he took off on a run that went for an incredible 58 yards. The team also got some help courtesy of Brayden Gardner, who picked up 74 receiving yards and a pair of TDs.
Meanwhile, it's never fun to lose, and it's even less fun to lose 66-20, which was the final score in Paxton's tilt against Wauneta-Palisade on Friday. The Tigers were already down big by the end of the third quarter and they stayed that way after failing to score in the fourth.
Having lost for the first time this season, Wallace fell to 3-1. As for Paxton, their defeat dropped their record down to 1-3.
Wallace came out on top in a nail-biter against Paxton in their previous meeting back in October of 2024, sneaking past 30-28. Do the Wildcats have another victory up their sleeve, or will the Tigers turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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