The Broken Arrow Tigers are taking a road trip to square off against the Union Redhawks at 7:00 p.m. on Friday.
Last Thursday, Broken Arrow lost to Norman North at home by a 47-28 margin. The Tigers have struggled against the Timberwolves recently, as their game on Thursday was their third consecutive lost matchup.
Despite the loss, Broken Arrow got top-tier performance from Jeramiah Ssettimba, who rushed for 99 yards and two touchdowns, and also threw for 231 yards and a touchdown. Those 99 rushing yards gave Ssettimba a new career-high. A healthy portion of that aerial production (131 yards to be exact) went to Zane Matthews.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Union). They took their matchup at home on Thursday with ease, bagging a 59-30 victory over Yukon. Given the Redhawks' advantage in MaxPreps' Oklahoma football rankings (they are ranked eighth, while the Millers are ranked 64th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
This one was won in the trenches and the lion's share of the credit has to go to Jordan Schelling and he. Schelling rushed for 136 yards and two touchdowns on only five carries while he rushed for 136 yards and two touchdowns on only five carries. He got the majority of those rushing yards when he took off on a run that went for an incredible 89 yards.
Broken Arrow now has a losing record at 3-4. As for Union, the win made it two in a row for them and bumps their season record up to 5-2.
Broken Arrow came up short against Union when the teams last played back in September of 2023, falling 27-17. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Union's Shaker Reisig, who threw for 319 yards and four touchdowns while completing 77.1% of his passes. Now that Broken Arrow knows 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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