The Pope Greyhounds will square off against the Sprayberry Yellow Jackets at 7:30 p.m. on Friday. Keep an eye on the score for this one: the two teams posted some lofty point totals in their previous games.
Pope came up short against Cherokee on Friday, falling 65-42. Despite running the score up even higher than they did in their prior game last Friday (41), the Greyhounds still had to take the loss.
Defeat or not, Pope got some senior leadership from John Stuetzer and Hudson Deline. Stuetzer picked up 246 receiving yards and five touchdowns, while Deline. threw for 258 yards and four touchdowns on only 19 passes. With that strong performance, Stuetzer is now averaging an impressive 2.7 receiving touchdowns per game. The team also got some help courtesy of Ethan Alterman, who rushed for 136 yards and a touchdown while picking up 8.0 yards per carry.
Meanwhile, Sprayberry put another one in the bag on Friday to keep their perfect season alive. They breezed by Kennesaw Mountain on the road to the tune of 38-3. Given the Yellow Jackets' advantage in MaxPreps' Georgia football rankings (they are ranked 99th, while the Mustangs are ranked 242nd), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Jaden Duckett had a dynamite game for Sprayberry, throwing for 298 yards and three touchdowns while completing 71.4% of his passes, and also rushing for 59 yards and a touchdown. Another player making a difference was Ian Hulbert, who gained 93 total yards and two touchdowns.
Pope now has a losing record at 1-2. As for Sprayberry, their win bumped their record up to 3-0.
Pope might still be hurting after the 45-21 loss they got from Sprayberry when the teams last played back in November of 2023. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Duckett, who rushed for 177 yards and five touchdowns while picking up 8.4 yards per carry. Now that Pope knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? Check MaxPreps.com after the match to find out.
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