Hattiesburg is 2-8 against Oak Grove since September of 2014 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Friday. The Hattiesburg Tigers will square off against the Oak Grove Warriors at 7:00 p.m. Expect the scorekeeper to be kept busy: if their previous games are any indication, the two teams will really light up the scoreboard.
Hattiesburg is headed into the match after thoroughly thrashing Laurel: they outscored them in every quarter. Given that consistent dominance, it should come as no surprise that Hattiesburg blew Laurel out of the water with a 46-7 final score. The Tigers pushed the score to 33-0 by the end of the third, a deficit the Golden Tornadoes had no chance of recovering from.
Meanwhile, Oak Grove faced Ocean Springs in a battle between two of the state's top teams on Friday. Oak Grove took down Ocean Springs 35-21. The win was nothing new for the Warriors as they're now sitting on eight straight dating back to last season.
The victory made it two in a row for Hattiesburg and bumps their season record up to 2-0. As for Oak Grove, their win bumped their record up to an identical 2-0.
Hattiesburg ended up a good deal behind Oak Grove when the teams last played back in September of 2023, losing 32-14. Can Hattiesburg avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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