Football Preview: Raton Tigers vs. Santa Rosa Lions
Raton is 0-4 against Santa Rosa since November of 2014 but things could change on Friday. A feisty cat fight will be fought when Tigers challenges the Santa Rosa Lions at 7:00 p.m. The two teams are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.
Raton's defense heads into the match hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Friday. They claimed a resounding 27-0 win over Capitan at home. The victory made it back-to-back wins for Raton.
Cannon Walton continued his habit of posting crazy stat lines, throwing for 135 yards and two touchdowns while completing 83.3% of his passes, and also rushing for 42 yards and a touchdown.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Santa Rosa). They blew past Tucumcari 55-7 on the road on Friday. Winning may never get old, but the Lions sure are getting used to it with their third in a row.
The victory got Raton back to even at 4-4. As for Santa Rosa, they are on a roll lately: they've won four of their last five games, which provided a nice bump to their 5-3 record this season.
Raton came up short against Santa Rosa when the teams last played back in October of 2017, falling 21-15. Can Raton avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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