The Marquette Sentinels will challenge the Gaylord Blue Devils at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Both teams are coming into the contest red-hot, with Marquette sitting on three straight wins and Gaylord on ten (dating back to last season).
If Marquette beats Gaylord with 21 points on Friday, it's going to be the team's new lucky number: they've won their past two games with that exact score. The Sentinels came out on top against Kingsford by a score of 21-13 on Friday.
Meanwhile, Gaylord got themselves on the board against Sault Area on Friday, but Sault Area never followed suit. They claimed a resounding 35-0 victory over Sault Area. Gaylord might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won three matchups by 28 points or more this season.
Marquette better focus on containing Grayson Glazier and Kelsen Snyder as the pair were huge in Gaylord's win. Glazier rushed for 58 yards and one score, while Snyder threw for 54 yards and one touchdown. Those 58 rushing yards gave Glazier a new career-high.
Gaylord's win bumped their record up to 9-0. As for Marquette, their victory bumped their record up to 6-3.
Marquette and Gaylord were almost perfectly matched up in their previous matchup back in September, but Marquette suffered an agonizing 28-27 defeat. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of the Blue Devils' Jaron Bensinger, who rushed for 171 yards and three TDs while picking up 7.4 yards per carry. Now that the Sentinels know the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? There's only one way to find out.
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