Bowling Green (6-2) at Greenwood (5-3)  

The Purples will again load the buses and travel about 5 miles down Scottsville Road to take on the Gators at the SWAMP!  It will be the 36^th meeting between the schools on the grid iron with the Purples undefeated.  While there have been close games in this series; most notably 1996 (25-21), 2004 (31-24) and perhaps the 2021 playoffs (24-10); the majority have been all Purples.  And at this point, it seems as much a mental hurdle as a grid-iron hurdle.

Greenwood Information:

The Gators have had somewhat of an expected season defeating 4 teams you would expect them to win including Hoptown, Logan County, Warren Central and Ohio County and losing two games you’d expect them to lose to in OCath and South Warren.  But I am sure they’d like to have the Warren East game back as that one surprised me a little bit.  In the Franklin-Simpson game this past Friday night, they played a good game vs a good team and came out with an impressive 31-30 win. 

Greenwood is led by JR QB Levi Wyatt who has 344 yards passing, 5 TDs vs 4 INTs through 7 games.  But the likely biggest offensive positive of the season has been SR RB Cayden Schwarzkopf show has 723 yards on 100 carries on the year with 4 TDs.  The Gators most explosive play is likely SR WR/LB Freeland Jackson who has 5 catches on the year for 111 yards and 1 TD; 31 rushes for 176 yards and 8 TDs.  All that while also leading the team in tackles with 47 (4 TFL).

Bowling Green Information:

The Purples have been less balanced this season than most.  The Purples have 1,815 passing yards vs 539 rushing yards on the year.  But go to your strengths right!  Bowling Greens best player is SR QB Deuce Bailey.  But football is a fickle sport and when you win you’re on top and when you lose you aren’t.  Such is the case for the Purples who come into this game on the heels of a humbling loss to cross town rival South Warren in a hard fought game, where the Purples honestly left a lot on the field and had a 4^th quarter to forget.  But nothing to do about that now as I’m sure Greenwood could care less. 

Game Information:

This game will be played at Greenwood High School on their new (very nice) turf field affectionally called The Swamp!  This game will be for second place in the district and a home playoff game, so it matters quite a lot.  Does Greenwood break the streak here or does BG get back in the win column? 

Greenwood is the ultimate palate cleanser for the Purples to flush the sour taste from their mouth.

Bailey was sharp against the Gators last year. I think he and Barber set the tone early.

Bump.

Greenwood takes opening kick and they have very good drive.and scores. Purples look like they are sleep walking. 
Greenwood 7-0. 

Travey Barber runs it back to the Gator 5. 1 run to Axson and TD BG. 
Greenwood 7

BG 7. 
still early 1Q

BG forces punt. 
Gators fake it. Get the first but holding. 
Kick to BG and they fumble. 
Gators ball. 
Timeout Gators

still 7-7. But a mess really. 

Greenwood punts to the BG 1 inch line. 
End of 1 Q

BG and GW tied at 7

Greenwood punts to the BG 1 inch line. 
End of 1 Q

BG and GW tied at 7

GW nice grinding drive 

But QB throws INT in end zone. 
BG now driving 

Beautiful throw and catch to Barber 

BG 14

GW 7

4:52 left in half

Gators punt. 
BG ball at GW 44 

Jaxson Smith runs 27 yards TD. 
Great blocks by OLine. 
BG 21

GW 7

Near Halftime 

Halftime

BG 21

GW 7

GW has played well and hard. 
BG look s like they were sleepwalking the first Quarter or so. 
BG gets ball first in 3Q so need to regain focus. 

GW kicks inside and recovers. 
Not sure what BGs deal is tonight but they don’t have it tonight. 
 

On 4th and 2. GW goes. Doesn’t get it. 
Turnover on downs. 
BG finely gets ball. 2 straight holding calls on BG. Goodness. 
They did get that first down. 
On 4th and 6, BG goes. First down to Graham to the GW 11. 
TD Jaxon Smith runs it in.  
BG 28

GW 7

5:46 3Q

Purples cause Turnover on downs. 
Jaxson Smith easilu BGs best player tonight. 
TD pass to Barber 

BG 35

GW 7

1 minute left in 3Q

End of 3Q

BG 35

GW 7

GW turns over on downs. 
BG ball in BG territory. 
Nice catch by Sadler. 
Nice run by Graham. 
Sadler to the GW 10. 
Graham runs it in for a TD. 
BG 42

GW 7

5:28 to play in game. 

GW scores on long pass on BG 2nd team D. 
Nice play GW. 
BG 42 

GW 14