Football Preview: River Ridge Hawks vs. Lakes Lancers
The River Ridge Hawks will venture away from home to take on the Lakes Lancers at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Expect the scorekeeper to be kept busy: if their previous games are any indication, both will really light up the scoreboard.
River Ridge's defense heads into the match hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Friday. They claimed a resounding 35-0 victory over Timberline at home. The score at the end of the third wound up being the final score as the Hawks just coasted through the last quarter.
Meanwhile, Lakes put another one in the bag on Friday to keep their perfect season alive. They blew past North Thurston 56-14 at home. With the Lancers ahead 42-0 at the half, the game was all but over already.
Lakes can attribute much of their success to Willie Nash, who threw for 302 yards and seven touchdowns while completing 78.3% of his passes, and Toetu Moliga, who gained 195 total yards and a touchdown. The dominant performance also gave Moliga a new career-high in rushing yards. Bryce Mccray did his part for the team as well, scoring a TD off of 64 receiving yards.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Lakes was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 221 rushing yards. That's the most rushing yards they've managed all season.
The win made it two in a row for River Ridge and bumps their season record up to 3-1. As for Lakes, their record now sits at 4-0.
Things could have been worse for River Ridge, but things could have been a whole lot better as they took a 34-17 loss to Lakes in their previous matchup back in September of 2023. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Lakes' Tristan Baker, who picked up 58 receiving yards and a touchdown, and also rushed for 77 yards. Now that River Ridge knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? There's only one way to find out.
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