Football Preview: Copper Hills Grizzlies vs. Corner Canyon Chargers
Two dominant signal callers in Maverick Bowles and Helaman Casuga are getting ready to go toe-to-toe. The Copper Hills Grizzlies will head out on the road to square off against the Corner Canyon Chargers at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Hopefully Copper Hills focused on turnovers this week as the team gave up four on Friday.
Last Friday, Copper Hills was beaten by Mountain Ridge 63-21. The loss continues a trend for the Grizzlies in their matchups with the Sentinels: they've now lost four in a row.
Despite the defeat, Copper Hills had strong showings from Bowles, who threw for 141 yards and three touchdowns, and Logan Batt, who picked up 82 receiving yards and three touchdowns. The dominant performance also gave Bowles a new career-high in rushing yards.
Meanwhile, Corner Canyon had already won three in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 17.3 points) and they went ahead and made it four on Friday. They blew past the Silverwolves 49-20 at home. Given the Chargers' advantage in MaxPreps' Utah football rankings (they are ranked second, while the Silverwolves are ranked 27th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Weston Briggs had a dynamite game for Corner Canyon, rushing for 151 yards and two touchdowns while picking up 8.4 yards per carry. Another player making a difference was Bronson Evans, who threw for 206 yards and a touchdown while completing 82.4% of his passes.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Corner Canyon was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 293 rushing yards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now rushed for at least 182 rushing yards in three consecutive contests.
Copper Hills now has a losing record at 3-4. As for Corner Canyon, their win was their 11th straight at home dating back to last season, which pushed their record up to 6-1.
We should be in store for an exciting game as the two teams have no problem gaining yardage. Copper Hills has been on an offensive roll this season, having averaged 360.6 total yards per game. However, it's not like Corner Canyon struggles in that department as they've been averaging 477. With a pair of commanding offenses duking it out, the defenses are going to have their work cut out for them.
Copper Hills was dealt a bruising 49-7 loss at the hands of Corner Canyon in their previous matchup back in September of 2023. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Corner Canyon's Bryton Brady, who rushed for 146 yards and two touchdowns on only five carries. Now that Copper Hills 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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