Football Game Preview: East Chambers Buccaneers vs. Kirbyville Wildcats

The East Chambers Buccaneers will face off against the Kirbyville Wildcats at 7:30 p.m. on Friday. East Chambers is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they’ve averaged 37.2 points per game this season.

Last Friday, East Chambers really took it to Coldspring-Oakhurst for the full four quarters, racking up a 47-18 win on the road. The Buccaneers pushed the score to 40-6 by the end of the third, a deficit the Trojans cut but never quite recovered from.

East Chambers’ victory was a true team effort, with many players turning in solid performances. Perhaps the best among them was Koby Jones, who rushed for 143 yards and two touchdowns while picking up 7.2 yards per carry. The team also got some help courtesy of Jarrell Smith, who gained 153 total yards and a touchdown.

Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, East Chambers was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 313 rushing yards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they’ve now rushed for at least 165 rushing yards in six consecutive contests.

Meanwhile, Kirbyville was not able to break out of their rough patch on Friday as the team picked up their third straight defeat. They took a blow against Orangefield, falling 49-14. The Wildcats were in a tough position after the first half, with the score already sitting at 35-0.

East Chambers pushed their record up to 5-2 with the win, which was their third straight on the road. As for Kirbyville, they now have a losing record at 3-4.

East Chambers was dealt a bruising 36-6 loss at the hands of Kirbyville when the teams last played back in September of 2023. Can East Chambers avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We’ll find out soon enough.

Article generated by infoSentience based on data entered on MaxPreps