6A #6 Central Hardin vs Henry Clay Predictions/Updates

Central Hardin will entertain Henry Clay for its homecoming game Friday night. Central Hardin comes into this game as the highest scoring team in the state at 207 points in four games and 76 points allowed. Central Hardin is very balanced on offense this season with 1121 rushing yards and 830 passing yards. QB Chase Elmore is averaging 208 yards passing per game while the leading back, Deonco Wilkerson has 421 yards rushing, Kyler Lee 274 yards rushing, and TreJean Sanders with 273 rushing yards. The leading receiver is Gavin George with 426 yards receiving followed by Deonco Wilkerson with 226 yards receiving while tight end Shaun Hay has 141 yards receiving on the year.

On special teams, Evan Jones is 18-18 on extra points and 5-5 on fields goals made this year after 4 games.

The defense is led by Kyler Lee with 30 tackles followed by Trent Hill with 27, Chase Elmore with 26, Trenton Ferguson with 25, Mason Troutt with 22, Shaun Hay with 22, Gavin George with 19 and Dylan Butterworth with 17 to lead the defense.

Henry Clay has scored 44 points this season and allowed 141. Rushing yards 339, and passing yards 424.

QB DJ Van Horn has 424 net passing yards.

The rushing attack is also led by DJ Van Horn with 202 yards rushing followed by Preston Stacy with 96 yards and Jordan Kimball with 33 yards rushing.

Leading receivers include Preston Stacy with 136 yards, Jakobi Godfrey 115, Ashton Foos with 76 and Colton Reynolds with 54 yards receiving.

On special teams, Graham Wald is 4-5 on PATs and 0-1 on field goals this season

Defensive leaders include Chris Dabney with 34 tackles, William webb with 29, Robert Crosby with 22 and Jordan Kimball with 20 to lead the defense.

Who Wins this game/Why?

Henry Clay is 0-4, though they’ve played some pretty good teams. It looks as if they have trouble getting the ball in the end zone, which does not bode well against an explosive team like Central Hardin.

Central Hardin 35

Henry Clay 7

Central Hardin should continue to score close to their average of 50 points in this one.

Central Hardin 48

Henry Clay 21

I believe Boyle County leads the state in scoring.

This statement is true. Central Hardin comes into this game as the highest scoring team in the state at 207 points in four games vs 194 for Boyle County. How did your JV and Freshman teams do this week?

This statement is true. Central Hardin comes into this game as the highest scoring team in the state at 207 points in four games vs 194 for Boyle County.

Cool.

That means a whole lot of nothin' considering CH's schedule.

This will be a very tough game for this year's edition of the Blue Devils. :(

Central Hardin 16

Henry Clay 6

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