Football Preview: Red Mountain Mountain Lions vs. Centennial Coyotes
The Red Mountain Mountain Lions will square off against the Centennial Coyotes at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Red Mountain will be hoping to continue their three-game streak of scoring more points each contest than the last.
Red Mountain is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Arizona's top teams: Mountain View, who was ranked ninth in their home state at the time (Red Mountain was ranked sixth). Red Mountain took a 43-38 hit to the loss column at the hands of Mountain View.
The match pitted two dominant signal callers against one another in Simon Lopez and Brady Goodman. Goodman had a great game on Friday and threw for 182 yards and four touchdowns. Meanwhile, Lopez was balling out in the loss, throwing for 262 yards and four touchdowns, while also rushing for 46 yards and a touchdown.
Meanwhile, a win for Centennial just wasn't in the cards on Friday as the team wasn't able to take the lead at any point. They were beaten by Liberty 45-17. The Coyotes have struggled against the Lions recently, as the game was their sixth consecutive lost matchup.
Centennial's defeat shouldn't obscure the performances of Kainan Manna, who threw for 196 yards and a touchdown, and Nikko Boncore-Montoya, who picked up 74 receiving yards.
Centennial's loss dropped their record down to 3-7. As for Red Mountain, their defeat dropped their record down to 7-3.
Red Mountain barely slipped by Centennial in their previous meeting back in November of 2021, winning 20-19. Will Red Mountain repeat their success, or does Centennial have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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