The Wayne Bulldogs welcome the Ringling Blue Devils to town at 7 p.m. Friday night.

It will be Wayne’s home stand of the season, with senior night festivities beginning at 6:30 p.m.

Ringling, 5-3, is coached by Tanner Coons.

Offensively, they will operate out of a double tight end formation and want to run the ball right at the defense with their junior quarterback, Rhett Roberts.

“They run quarterback sweep and run the power with him,” Wayne head coach Brandon Sharp said. “The kid can go. He’ll maybe be the best overall player we’ve faced this year.”

Defensively, the Blue Devils run a 4-4 and are very physical up front.

“They do a lot of slanting with their defensive linemen and their linebackers get down hill and want to punish you when they get there.”

Rush Springs

Wayne came up on the short end of a 21-8 final last Friday against Rush Springs.

The Bulldogs had their chances during the game, but were never able to put things across the finish line.

They dealt with some of the same execution errors that have plagued them much of the season and missed out on three separate opportunities to put points on the board in the red zone.

Their lone score of the night came on a two-yard run by Jaxon Dill.

Sloan Jackson ran in for the two-point conversion.

Freshman Jeremiah Peterson ran for 114 yards on 15 carries.

“He ran the ball hard,” Sharp said. “He did a good job.”

Dill was 10-20 for 66 yards passing.

His favorite target in the game was Jackson, who had nine catches for 60 yards.

Rush Springs was giving up throws underneath and Wayne took advantage of it.

Wayne was down 14-8 before halftime and Sharp was trying to get his bunch into the locker room down only one score.

But a defensive bust let the Redskins out for a 65-yard touchdown.

Neither team was able to score in the second half when the Wayne defense cinched up their belts and went to work.

“They weren’t sustaining drives on us. It was a few big plays,” Sharp said. “Our defense kept playing and the secondary tightened up.”

Sharp said his team never showed signs of quitting and they continued to play hard the whole game.

“We couldn’t catch a break. We had bad penalties at the wrong times,” he said. “The kids didn’t quit. They wanted to win that game and they left it all on the field.

Wayne is 1-7 this season.