East Lyme is 0-5 against Killingly since November of 2016 but things could change on Friday. The East Lyme Vikings will head out on the road to square off against the Killingly Redmen at 6:30 p.m.
East Lyme can't be to happy about their upcoming road game considering what happened when they opened their season on the away from home on Friday. They were beaten by Joel Barlow 28-0.
Meanwhile, everything came up roses for Killingly on the road against Stonington on Thursday as the team secured a 68-16 win. Given the Redmen's advantage in MaxPreps' Connecticut football rankings (they are ranked 31st, while the Bears are ranked 89th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Hayden Allard had an outrageously good game as he rushed for 307 yards and seven touchdowns while picking up 17.1 yards per carry. The dominant performance gave him a new career-high in rushing yards. The team also got some help courtesy of Joseph Mackie, who rushed for 98 yards and a touchdown on only five carries.
He was just one part of a punishing run game: Killingly was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 454 rushing yards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now rushed for at least 158 rushing yards in 12 consecutive matchups dating back to last season.
East Lyme was dealt a bruising 64-35 loss at the hands of Killingly in their previous meeting back in October of 2023. Can East Lyme avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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