The Fort Wayne Bishop Dwenger Saints will square off against the Columbia City Eagles at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Both are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.
Fort Wayne Bishop Dwenger is headed in fresh off scoring the most points they have all season. They blew past Fort Wayne Concordia Lutheran 41-7 at home on Friday. The high-flying offensive performance was a huge turnaround for the Saints considering their six-point performance the game before.
Fort Wayne Bishop Dwenger can attribute much of their success to Augustus Tippmann, who rushed for 77 yards and a touchdown on only nine carries.
He was just one part of a punishing run game: Fort Wayne Bishop Dwenger was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 287 rushing yards. That's a new trend for them: they were averaging 69 rushing yards per game earlier this season, but in their last four matchups they've averaged 190.2.
Fort Wayne Bishop Dwenger didn't go easy on the quarterback and picked off five passes before the game was over. Carter Zent led the group effort, picking up two of those interceptions all by himself.
Meanwhile, Columbia City took their contest on the road on Friday with ease, bagging a 49-7 victory over Norwell. Considering the Eagles have won six matches by more than 28 points this season, Friday's blowout was nothing new.
Columbia City wouldn't let Norwell keep a hold of the ball as they managed to force two fumbles. Ethan Mcintosh was the leader in that area as all came courtesy of his dominant performance.
Fort Wayne Bishop Dwenger pushed their record up to 4-5 with the win, which was their third straight at home. As for Columbia City, the victory made it two in a row for them and bumps their season record up to 8-1.
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