Football Preview: Snow Canyon Warriors vs. Crimson Cliffs Mustangs
The Snow Canyon Warriors are on the road again on Friday to play the Crimson Cliffs Mustangs at 7:00 p.m. Snow Canyon will be hoping to continue their three-game streak of scoring more points each game than the last.
Snow Canyon is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Friday. Everything went their way against Murray as Snow Canyon made off with a 27-7 win. The Warriors pushed the score to 27-0 by the end of the third, a deficit the Spartans cut but never quite recovered from.
The critical scores for Snow Canyon came from Jt Westbrook, Cael Esplin, and Cael Johnson.
Snow Canyon didn't go easy on the quarterback and picked off two passes before the game was over. In fact, those interceptions all came courtesy of defensive juggernaut Karsten Stuart.
Meanwhile, Crimson Cliffs came tearing into two weeks ago's match with seven straight wins (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 20.3 points) and they left with even more momentum. They slipped by the Flyers 21-20.
Crimson Cliffs got their victory on the backs of several key players, but it was Malakai Alofipo out in front who picked up 151 receiving yards and three touchdowns. With that strong performance, Alofipo is now averaging an impressive 100.1 receiving yards per game. Another signal caller making a difference was Ryder Sherratt, who threw for 211 yards and three touchdowns.
Snow Canyon's win bumped their record up to 4-7. As for Crimson Cliffs, their victory was their fifth straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 8-2.
Snow Canyon was dealt a bruising 35-6 loss at the hands of Crimson Cliffs when the teams last played back in September. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Crimson Cliffs' Mccord Christiansen, who rushed for 185 yards and a touchdown while picking up 10.9 yards per carry. Now that Snow Canyon 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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