Salmen High welcomes East Jefferson tonight

Salmen’s Spartans welcome the East Jefferson Warriors tonight in a District 9-4A home game.

Salmen (4-2) comes into action with a 2-0-district record, while East Jefferson (1-5, 0-2) is looking for its first district win of the season.

Last week, the Spartans knocked off Holy Cross, 18-15. The Warriors suffered a 41-6 loss to Franklinton.

The two teams met last year with Salmen winning, 40-14.

Offensively, the Spartans operate out of the spread led by quarterback Julien Troullier.

This year, Troullier has run for 11 touchdowns, including two last week, while throwing for six scores and he has a touchdown catch. Going into the Holy Cross game, he had 541 yards rushing and 595 passing.

Salmen’s leading receivers going into last week’s contest were Isiah Tate and Daniel Sams.

Tate had 20 receptions for 288 yards and four touchdowns. Going into last Friday, Sams had made the most of his eight receptions with 140 receiving yards and a pair of scores.

The running backs are Jordan Stevenson and Curtis Owens. Before the Holy Cross contest, Stevenson had 175 yards rushing on 26 carries and two TDs, while Owens had 17 carries for 103 yards.

The Spartans will be going against a defense that bases out of the 3-4, but changes things up.

Offensively, the Warriors are a zone team. The quarterback is sophomore Jared Lewis.

His running backs are Anthony Holmes and Stephen Lewis.

Defensively, Salmen runs a 3-3. Junior end Isame Faciane led the team with four sacks and six tackles resulting in lost yardage prior to the win over Holy Cross. He also had 25 tackles, 11 solos with four sacks and six pressures.

Salmen coach Jerry Leonard said Faciane has improved throughout the season.

“He’s gotten better every week,” Leonard said. “He’s playing to the level we thought he could.”

Senior linebacker Dedrick Parson was tied for the team lead with senior defensive back David Edgerson, both having 33 tackles before the Holy Cross game. Parson had recorded, four behind the line, 18 individual with four pressures and a pair of forced fumbles.

Edgerson had 17 individual stops with two forced fumbles, one pass broken up and four tackles for loss.

Junior linebacker Cedrick Wilkes was next with 27 stops, 15 solos and he had five stops behind the line, four pressures, two sacks and a forced fumble before last week.