The McCallum Knights will head out on the road to take on the Bastrop Bears at 7:30 p.m. on Friday. Hopefully McCallum focused on turnovers this week as the team gave up four on Friday.
McCallum will head out to face Bastrop after giving up their first home loss of the season on Friday. McCallum lost 50-26 to Elgin.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Bastrop). They took their matchup on the road on Thursday with ease, bagging a 69-6 victory over Crockett. Given the Bears' advantage in MaxPreps' Texas football rankings (they are ranked 324th, while the Cougars are ranked 1022nd), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Bastrop can attribute much of their success to Weston Nielsen, who threw for 150 yards and two touchdowns while completing 90.9% of his passes, and Ladainian Merino, who rushed for 73 yards and two touchdowns on only five carries. The dominant performance also gave Nielsen a new career-high in rushing yards. Another passer making a difference was Quintaelyn Joyner, who threw for 100 yards and a touchdown.
McCallum's loss dropped their record down to 2-2. As for Bastrop, the win also got them back to even at 2-2.
McCallum suffered a grim 40-16 defeat to Bastrop in their previous meeting back in October of 2015. Thankfully for McCallum, Jovahn Jones (who rushed for 112 yards and two touchdowns) won't be suiting up this time. Will that be enough to change the final result? Check MaxPreps.com after the match to find out.
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