Football Recap: Dakota Ridge Eagles vs. Highlands Ranch Falcons
Winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Dakota Ridge). They blew past the Highlands Ranch Falcons, posting a 47-7 win on the road. The Eagles might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won three matches by 22 points or more this season.
Multiple players turned in solid performances to lead Dakota Ridge to victory, but perhaps none more so than Kellen Behrendsen, who threw for 184 yards and a touchdown while completing 88.9% of his passes, and also punched in a touchdown on the ground. Landon Kalsbeck helped Behrendsen out on the ground, rushing for 61 yards and a touchdown on only six carries, while also picking up 46 receiving yards.
They were just one part of a punishing run game: Dakota Ridge was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 251 rushing yards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now rushed for at least 200 rushing yards in seven consecutive games.
Dakota Ridge's defense made their presence known, laying out Crew Gerig. three times. Leading the way was Brady Palladino with two sacks.
Despite the loss, Highlands Ranch still got an impressive performance from Luke Bakken, who rushed for 122 yards.
Dakota Ridge pushed their record up to 7-1 with the victory, which was their fourth straight on the road. As for Highlands Ranch, this is the second loss in a row for them and nudges their season record down to 5-3.
Dakota Ridge will welcome Golden at 7:30 p.m. on Friday. One thing working in Dakota Ridge's favor is that they have posted at least 31 points in their last five matchups. As for Highlands Ranch, it'll be Battle of the Birds when Falcons dukes it out withHeritage at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday.
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