The Booker Tornadoes will head out on the road to face off against the Lemon Bay Manta Rays at 7:30 p.m. on Friday. Both teams come into the matchup bolstered by wins in their previous matches.
With a playoff game on the line, Booker rose to the challenge on Friday. They enjoyed a cozy 33-17 victory over Fort Meade. Booker pushed the score to 33-9 by the end of the third, a deficit Fort Meade cut but never quite recovered from.
Josiah Booker went supernova for Booker, rushing for 134 yards and three touchdowns on only eight carries. Booker's longest rush was for an incredible 74 yards. Another player making a difference was Omarion Patterson, who rushed for 65 yards and a touchdown.
Meanwhile, Lemon Bay stacked a sixth blowout onto their ever-increasing hoard on Friday. They claimed a resounding 39-7 victory over Frostproof at home. Given Lemon Bay's advantage in MaxPreps' Florida football rankings (they are ranked 138th, while Frostproof is ranked 304th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
The win makes it two in a row for Booker and bumps their season record up to 7-4. As for Lemon Bay, the win was the third in a row for them, bringing their record for this year to 10-1.
Booker came up short against Lemon Bay in their previous matchup back in October, falling 26-18. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Lemon Bay's Joseph Scott, who rushed for 249 yards and three touchdowns while picking up 10.4 yards per carry, and also picked up 65 receiving yards. Now that Booker knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? Check MaxPreps.com after the match to find out.
