Pender loses at Wakefield

The Pender Football team lost 46-16 at Wakefield Friday night.

Senior Quarterback Brady Oliver was 11-29 passing for 83 yards and a touchdown.

Jaydon Jump racked up 15 tackles while Jesse Thompson made 12. Korbin Hardenbrook notched 8 while Tyler Nelson totaled 7.

The Pendragons had 183 yards of total offense, including 100 rushing.

Tough loss to swallow for Pender. I'm sure the Pendragons feel they should of been and were hoping to be much more competitive than they were.

Pender (1-2) hosts Homer (1-2) Friday night.

The Knights won 39-26 at home over Laurel-Concord-Coleridge this past Friday night.

Homer lost 44-21 at home to Wakefield earlier in the season.

So based on the scores of both teams' games against the Trojans, this could be a very good contest.

The Knights have to come into this game with a lot of confidence, there's no doubt about it.

With that said, the game is in Pender, and I fully expect the Pendragons to take care of business.

If Pender can get past this game, the Pendragons should be win out until GACC comes calling in October.

I have to admit though I expected more out of Pender against Wakefield, especially considering the Pendragons were coming off a bye week.

Perhaps just simply playing a game again will allow Pender to be on track for this week, but this is a game the Pendragons must have.

If Pender loses to Homer, their chances of hosting a first round playoff game could be very slim.

I think the Trojans are playing better now than they were when they beat the Knights, but still Homer has to have the Pendragons' attention.

Pender has to come out and light a fire under themselves, and be physical, hit hard, and play with mental and physical toughness, tenacity, grit, fire, passion, and pride.

The Pendragons have to come out upset and be ready to take it to the Knights for four quarters.

Nothing good comes from losing big to a rival, and so Pender has to take all their frustrations of losing to Wakefield out on Homer.

The Pendragons can still go out and have a very fine season, they just need to simply regroup.

Pender has to start over and pretend as if they are 0-0.

The Pendragons are a very good team, in my opinion, they just need to get back on track.

Everyone has to perform a little bit better than they have the last couple weeks for this thing to get going again.

The Pendragons have to simply be better on both sides of the ball. An explosive offense and shutdown defense will get Pender a lot of places so if the Pendragons can have both of those things Friday night they should roll.