Football Preview: Royal Palm Beach Wildcats vs. West Boca Raton Bulls
The Royal Palm Beach Wildcats will square off against the West Boca Raton Bulls at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday. Hopefully Royal Palm Beach focused on turnovers this week as the team gave up four on Friday.
Royal Palm Beach is coming in off a wild two-game stretch: after soaring to 38 points back in September, they were much more limited against Boca Raton on Friday. They fell just short of the Bobcats by a score of 9-7. The Wildcats gained 78 more yards on the day, but it was the Bobcats that made the best use of them.
Meanwhile, West Boca Raton's undefeated season came to an end after five games on Friday. They were just a hair shy of victory and fell 28-27 to Western. The loss was the Bulls' first of the season.
Despite the loss, West Boca Raton got top-tier performance from Trey Moran, who threw for 170 yards and three touchdowns while completing 78.6% of his passes, and also rushed for 52 yards. The dominant performance gave Moran a new career-high in rushing yards. Anderson Gracilien was in the mix too, providing West Boca Raton with two touchdowns.
Royal Palm Beach's defeat dropped their record down to 4-2. As for West Boca Raton, their loss was their first of the season and makes their record 5-1.
Royal Palm Beach was able to grind out a solid victory over West Boca Raton in their previous matchup back in August of 2019, winning 34-21. The rematch might be a little tougher for Royal Palm Beach since the team won't have the home-field advantage this time around. We'll see if the change in venue makes a difference.
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