For the third week in a row, the Plainfield East football team scored 55 points Friday night.

This time, the Bengals’ victim was Joliet Central in the Southwest Prairie East opener for both teams, as East rolled to a 55-6 victory. East (3-0, 1-0) has now outscored its opponents 165-8 in its first three games.

Junior running back David Croom III did a bulk of the damage for the Bengals, rushing for 113 yards and three touchdowns on just 11 carries, all in the first half, as Plainfield East built a 48-0 halftime lead en route to starting 3-0 for the first time since 2013.

Croom followed the stellar blocking of offensive linemen Ryan Badon, Xavier Robert Casey, Sebastian Sanchez, and Jaden Pringle, among others, and had plenty of openings to run through. He scored on runs of 34, 4 and

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