Football Preview: Legacy Leopards vs. Memorial Mavericks
The Legacy Leopards will look to defend their home field on Friday against the Memorial Mavericks at 7:00 p.m. The timing isn't great for Legacy: they have been struggling with four straight losses at home, while Memorial has snatched up three consecutive wins on the road.
Legacy is headed into the matchup out to prove that what happened against Palo Duro on Friday (when they were outscored in every quarter) was just a minor bump in the road. Legacy had to suffer through a 34-6 loss at the hands of Palo Duro. While losing is never fun, the Leopards can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Texas football rankings (they are ranked 808th, while the Dons are ranked 389th).
Meanwhile, Memorial didn't have too much trouble with Plainview on Friday as they won 54-35.
Multiple players turned in solid performances to lead Memorial to victory, but perhaps none more so than Kenji Johnson, who rushed for 175 yards and four touchdowns while picking up 8.0 yards per carry. The team also got some help courtesy of Eric Powell, who gained 251 total yards and two touchdowns.
On the other side of the ball, a lot of the credit has to go to Memorial's defensive line and their four sacks. Plainview's QB won't forget Micah James anytime soon given he sacked him twice.
Legacy's defeat dropped their record down to 0-9. As for Memorial, their record is now 7-2.
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