Wagner has won three straight games at home (dating back to last season), while Pieper has won three straight on the road also dating back to last season, but those streaks won't matter much on Thursday. The Wagner Thunderbirds will welcome the Pieper Warriors at 7:00 p.m. The two teams are strolling into their contests after big wins in their previous games.
Wagner will roll into the match after a wild two-game stretch: they only put up six points last Friday, then bounced right back against San Marcos on Friday. Wagner put the hurt on San Marcos with a sharp 40-17 win. Given the Thunderbirds' advantage in MaxPreps' Texas football rankings (they are ranked 207th, while the Rattlers are ranked 594th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Wagner's success was the result of a balanced attack that saw several players step up, but Charles Mondy led the charge by rushing for 65 yards and three touchdowns on only six carries. The dominant performance gave Mondy a new career-high in rushing yards. Another back making a difference was William Reynolds, who rushed for 98 yards and a touchdown on only seven carries.
He was just one part of a punishing run game: Wagner was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 360 rushing yards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now rushed for at least 154 rushing yards in 13 consecutive matchups dating back to last season.
Meanwhile, Pieper humbled Davenport with a 42-7 victory. The game was pretty much decided by the half, when the score had already reached 28-0.
Cayden Keeth was a one-man wrecking crew for Pieper as he threw for 389 yards and six touchdowns while completing 77.8% of his passes. The team also got some help courtesy of Cash Lancaster, who picked up 100 receiving yards and two touchdowns.
The victory got Wagner back to even at 1-1. As for Pieper, their win bumped their record up to 3-0.
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