A feisty cat fight will be fought when Wildcats challenges the Stigler Panthers at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. They will need to watch out since Checotah has now posted at least 31 points every time they've taken the field this season.
Checotah will head into Friday's matchup hoping to keep the good times rolling: they proved they can win big last Friday (they won by 26) but on Friday they proved they can win the close ones too. They had just enough and edged Muldrow out 48-45. The 48-point effort marked the Wildcats' lowest-scoring game of the season, but in the end it didn't matter.
The match pitted two dominant wideouts against one another in Elijah Thomas and Teaguen Collins. Thomas had a great game and gained 254 total yards and four touchdowns. Meanwhile, Collins was balling out in the loss, rushing for 74 yards and two touchdowns, while also throwing for 177 yards and two touchdowns on only 15 passes.
On the defensive side of the ball, a lot of the credit has to go to Checotah's defensive line and their 3.5 sacks. Preston Cannon was especially locked on to Muldrow's QB and sacked him twice.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Stigler). They won a contest that couldn't have been any closer, slipping by Idabel 29-28.
Stigler was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 222 rushing yards. That's the most rushing yards they've managed all season.
Checotah's win was their third straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 4-1. As for Stigler, their victory bumped their record up to 2-3.
Checotah strolled past Stigler when the teams last played back in November of 2023 by a score of 28-13. Does Checotah have another victory up their sleeve, or will Stigler turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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