Week 9 football: Westwood tries to end Astronaut shutout streak

HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: WEEK 9 

ASTRONAUT (6-1) AT FORT PIERCE WESTWOOD (5-2)

Kickoff: 6 p.m. Thursday, Calvin Triplett Field at Lawnwood Stadium, Fort Pierce

Rankings: None (Fort Pierce Westwood received votes in 5A, Astronaut in 4A)

Last game: Astronaut defeated Lake Highland Prep 43-0; Fort Pierce Westwood defeated Suncoast 56-14 to clinch the District 15-5A championship.

Series: Astronaut leads 1-0

Last meeting: 2017 (Astronaut won 40-15)

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Worth noting: Astronaut has outscored opponents 168-31 and has blanked its past five opponents: Everglades Prep (14-0), Seabreeze (35-0), Port Orange-Atlantic (7-0), Satellite (30-0) and Lake Highland Prep. That's a total of 240 minutes, 16 seconds of game time since Merritt island's Jake Nobles kicked a 29-yard field goal for a 10-9 win Sept. 7 ...  Fort Pierce Westwood clinched its second consecutive district tile and 14th overall last week ... Panthers sophomore QB Turk Watkins threw five touchdown passes against Suncoast in only his second start. ... Six Westwood players scored touchdowns last week, including two apiece by Willie Lewis and Antonio Green ... Westwood is trying to reach six wins for the second year in a row. That would be the first time since a four-year run from 2007-10 ... Astronaut has clinched a winning season after finishing 4-6 in 2017.