STRATTANVILLE, Pa. (EYT) –It’s rivalry week in central Clarion County Friday night when Clarion makes the short trip across Route 322 to battle rival Clarion-Limestone in the second annual Black & Blue Brawl Presented by ExploreClarion.com.

Kickoff for the 48th all-time meeting between the teams and the second for the Black & Blue Brawl Cup Presented by ExploreClarion.com will be at 7 p.m. Friday at the Clarion-Limestone Football Field. The game will be broadcast live on Explore Radio via ExploreClarion.com and the Explore Radio apps with Mike Kalinowski and Bob Dunkle on the call with the pregame show starting at 6:30 p.m.

The Bobcats enter the game unbeaten at 3-0 and are coming off a 61-6 win over Keystone Friday night, the 500th win in program history.

C-L sits at 3-1, but the Lions have spent the week trying to figure out what happened in a 40-14 loss at Redbank Valley in a game they were favored to win.

Clarion is led by senior running back Colton Rapp, who is coming off a 100-yard, four-touchdown game against Keystone with two of the scores coming through the air. Senior quarterback Spencer Miller is also a key part of the Bobcats offense.

C-L is paced by senior quarterback Brenden Makary as well as Riley Hummell, who they hope is ready to go in this one after the running back/linebacker sat out the second half of the Redbank Valley game with an injury. If Hummell can’t go, expect more touches for running back Chris Peace, who does have a couple of 100-yard games this season.

This matchup has gone Clarion’s way over the past decade-plus with the Bobcats having won 13 in a row over the last 12 years including twice in 2005 when Clarion topped C-L, 14-6, in the District 9 Class 1A semifinals.

And the scores haven’t been close with Clarion winning by an average of 46.2 points per game over the lats 10 years, including a 20-point victory, 34-14, last year when the two teams entered the game both unbeaten. C-L’s last win came 28-12 in 2004.

While Larry Wiser’s team has had success over the last decade against the Lions, it wasn’t always like that. In fact, the veteran coach started his career 4-14 against the Lions before rolling off wins in each of the last 12 games he has coached against C-L (Wiser took the 2010 season off).

C-L head coach Dave Eggleton, in his fifth season, has never beaten the Bobcats as a head coach, but he had plenty of wins against the Bobcats as a player for the Lions going 3-1 in a four-year career against Clarion (Eggleton was actually a member of Wiser’s staff for a brief time during the current Clarion win streak as was offensive coordinator Todd Smith, who has been an assistant coach on both sides of the rivalry, a head coach at C-L and a player at C-L).

While the game will serve as local bragging rights, it won’t have a ton of impact on postseason aspirations with Clarion now a 2A school under the PIAA’s six-classification system and C-L still at 1A.

CLARION/CLARION-LIMESTONE THROUGHOUT THE YEARS

All-time Series Record: Clarion leads 30-17
Clarion Head Coach Larry Wiser in the series as head coach: 16-14
Clarion-Limestone Head Coach Dave Eggleton in the series as head coach: 0-4
Last Clarion Win: 2016 — 34-14
Last Clarion-Limestone Win: 2004 — 28-12
Clarion’s Longest Series Win Streak: 13 (2005-present)
Clarion-Limestone’s Longest Win Streak: 9 (1988-1995)
Closest games: 1 point (1975 — Clarion 7-6; 1991 Clarion-Limestone 7-6
Playoff record vs. each other: 1-1 (C-L won D9 1A title in 1990, 21-14 in overtime; Clarion win D9 1A semifinal in 2004, 14-6)

YEAR-BY-YEAR RESULTS
2016 — Clarion 34-14
2015 — Clarion 41-6
2014 — Clarion 67-0
2013 — Clarion 74-0 (Dave Eggleton’s first game as head coach)
2012 — Clarion 57-0
2011 — Clarion 52-6
2010 — Clarion 39-13 (Wiser didn’t coach this game)
2009 — Clarion 48-0
2008 — Clarion 46-6
2007 — Clarion 45-0
2006 — Clarion 56-6
2005 — Clarion 14-6 (District 9 Class A Semifinals)
2005 — Clarion 41-6
2004 — Clarion-Limestone 28-12
2003 — Clarion-Limestone 27-6
2002 — Clarion-Limestone 44-0
2001 — Clarion-Limestone 30-20
2000 — Clarion 34-0
1999 — Clarion 51-0
1998 — Clarion-Limestone 19-6
1997 — Clarion 46-0
1996 — Clarion 41-0
1995 — Clarion-Limestone 30-6
1994 — Clarion-Limestone 13-7
1993 — Clarion-Limestone 22-7
1992 — Clarion-Limestone 21-0
1991 — Clarion-Limestone 7-6
1990 — Clarion-Limestone 21-14, overtime (District 9 Class A Championship Game)
1990 — Clarion-Limestone 10-0
1989 — Clarion-Limestone 20-7
1988 — Clarion-Limestone 21-0 (Larry Wiser’s first game as head coach)
1987 — Clarion 7-0
1986 — Clarion 63-8
1985 — Clarion 14-8
1984 — Clarion 16-0
1983 — Clarion 21-7
1982 — Clarion 36-6
1981 — Clarion 35-0
1980 — Clarion 29-0
1979 — Clarion — Won by forfeit
1978 — Clarion 25-8
1977 — Clarion-Limestone 12-8
1976 — Clarion-Limestone 8-0
1975 — Clarion 7-6
1974 — Clarion-Limestone 12-8
1973 — Clarion 36-0
1972 — Clarion 47-6