SEYMOUR — With their playoff eligibility essentially decided, the Seymour Eagles will head into tonight’s game with something else on the line: Pride.

The Eagles (4-5, 3-3 in District 2-AAA) have already sewn up their third place spot among 5A teams in the IMAC Conference, which makes them playoff eligible. Now the team is playing for a .500 record for coach Jim Moore’s first season at the helm.

Morristown West (7-2, 5-1), currently the second place team in the IMAC, stands in their way.

The Trojans present an interesting challenge for the streaking Seymour team, which has won their last two games by a combined score of 79-6.

West plays a great run defense, limiting opposing rushers to just over 3-yards per carry, while the Trojans run for an average of 6-yards per tote.

The Eagles are primarily a running team, while they usually play the run tough defensively. Blake Overton leads the ground attack for Seymour with 648 yards on 7.5 per carry.

With both teams looking to control the game on the ground, the two clubs’ passing games could become a big factor.

For the Eagles, QB Dustin Fain has been fairly effective this season. In seven games as the starter, Fain has passed for 601 yards and five TDs, while also tossing five interceptions.

Morristown West QB Patrick Ashford, in the meantime, has passed for 368 yards this season, including five TDs and only one pick.

Seymour’s defense could change that, however, as the Eagles put five players on the field who have recorded interceptions this season, including DBs Cory Clark and Chase Ketron, who’ve each picked off four passes.

Morristown West has no defenders that have recorded more than one INT, and the Trojans definitely had trouble stopping the pass against Sevier County. In that game the Smoky Bears’ Zach Flynn lit West up for 227 yards despite soggy field conditions while his team cruised to a 31-3 win.

Should Seymour be able to mix the run and the pass and the defense play their best, the Eagles could earn coach Moore a 5-5 record in his first season as coach — during Seymour’s first year in the state’s biggest football classification.

Kickoff is set for 7:30 p.m. at Morristown’s Burke-Toney Stadium.