Football Preview: Heights Bulldogs vs. Westside Wolves
Heights is 8-2 against Westside since October of 2014, and they'll have a chance to extend that success on Saturday. The Heights Bulldogs will take on the Westside Wolves at 6:00 p.m. The two teams are strolling into their matches after big wins in their previous games.
Last Saturday, Heights was fully in charge, breezing past Houston Math Science & Tech 58-6. Given the Bulldogs' advantage in MaxPreps' Texas football rankings (they are ranked 431st, while the Tigers are ranked 1137th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Heights found their leader in sophomore Kobe Miles, who threw for 164 yards and three touchdowns while completing 80% of his passes.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Westside). Their defense stepped up to hand Cesar E. Chavez a 58-0 shutout last Thursday. Perhaps unsurprisingly given the team's high-flying offense, the game also marked the team's biggest victory of the season.
Alexandre Turcios continued his habit of posting crazy stat lines, rushing for 207 yards and three touchdowns while picking up 10.4 yards per carry. Those 207 rushing yards gave him a new career-high. Dillyn White was another key player, rushing for 32 yards and three touchdowns.
Westside was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 351 rushing yards. That's the most rushing yards they've managed all season.
Westside didn't go easy on the quarterback and picked off two passes before the game was over. The picks came courtesy of Justin Nwoko and Bryce Harris. Nwoko has been hot recently, having also posted at least one defended passe the last three times he's played.
The win (which was Westside's third in a row) raised their record to 3-6. Those good results were due in large part to their defensive effort, having only surrendered 4.7 points per game. As for Heights, the victory made it two in a row for them and bumps their season record up to 6-3.
Everything came up roses for Heights against Westside in their previous matchup back in October of 2023, as the squad secured a 59-7 win. Will Heights repeat their success, or does Westside have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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