Football Preview: Fort Morgan Mustangs vs. Mountain View Mountain Lions
After each having a week off, the Fort Morgan Mustangs and the Mountain View Mountain Lions will shake off the cobwebs and square off against one another at 7:00 p.m. on Friday.
Fort Morgan will head into Friday's contest out to bounce back: they came back down to earth last Friday after soaring to a 36-point game in their last game. They fell just short of Eaton by a score of 14-12. That makes it the first time this season the Mustangs have let down their home crowd.
Fort Morgan didn't go easy on the quarterback and picked off two passes before the game was over. The picks came courtesy of Angel Lopez and Yeteli Busonera. Another thorn in Eaton's side was Wyatt Patterson, who made nine total tackles (5.0 for loss).
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Mountain View). They blew past Gateway, posting a 52-20 victory on the road. The win was familiar territory for the Mountain Lions who have now won three matchups in a row.
This one was won in the trenches and the lion's share of the credit has to go to Jaden Saville and he. Saville rushed for 103 yards and a touchdown on only seven carries while he rushed for 103 yards and a touchdown on only seven carries. The dominant performance also gave Kc Mendoza a new career-high in rushing yards. Another player making a difference was Tony Schnee, who rushed for 55 yards and a touchdown.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Mountain View was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 392 rushing yards. That's the most rushing yards they've managed all season.
Fort Morgan now has a losing record at 2-3. As for Mountain View, their victory bumped their record up to 4-1.
Everything went Fort Morgan's way against Mountain View when the teams last played back in October of 2021, as Fort Morgan made off with a 35-14 win. Will Fort Morgan repeat their success, or does Mountain View have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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