The Carolina Forest Panthers will square off against the Irmo Yellow Jackets at 7:00 p.m. on Friday.
Carolina Forest's offense might be in the hot seat on Friday considering what happened against Hough on Friday. They were dealt a 41-0 loss at the hands of the Huskies. The loss was the Panthers' first of the season.
Meanwhile, Irmo is ranked highly in their home state and on Friday they took on another highly ranked team in the form of Butler. Irmo pulled ahead with a 35-34 photo finish over Butler. 35 seems to be a good number for the Yellow Jackets as the team scooped up a win with the same number of points in their previous game.
Irmo got their victory on the backs of several key players, but it was Aaron (Aj) Brand Jr. out in front who rushed for 139 yards and two touchdowns on only 15 carries, and also threw for 150 yards and a touchdown while completing 77.8% of his passes. With that strong performance, Brand Jr. is now averaging an impressive 102 rushing yards per game. Another rusher making a difference was Amire White, who rushed for 101 yards and two touchdowns on only 13 carries.
White wasn't the only one working in the rushing yards department: Irmo was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 240 rushing yards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now rushed for at least 163 rushing yards in three consecutive matches.
Having lost for the first time this season, Carolina Forest fell to 1-1-1. As for Irmo, their win bumped their record up to 3-0.
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