Football Preview: Memorial Mavericks vs. Lubbock-Cooper Pirates
The Memorial Mavericks are taking a road trip to take on the Lubbock-Cooper Pirates at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Keep an eye on the score for this one: the two teams posted some lofty point totals in their previous games.
Memorial will head out to face Lubbock-Cooper after giving up their first home loss of the season on Friday. Memorial fell just short of Wylie by a score of 45-42. It was the first time this season that the Mavericks let down their fans at home.
Despite the defeat, Memorial got top-tier performance from Kenji Johnson, who rushed for 174 yards and three touchdowns while picking up 7.9 yards per carry. Johnson is crushing it when it comes to rushing yards: he's rushed for at least 144 every time he's taken the field this season. The team also got some help courtesy of Eric Powell, who rushed for 74 yards and two touchdowns.
He was just one part of a punishing run game: Memorial was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 247 rushing yards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now rushed for at least 174 rushing yards in four consecutive matchups.
Meanwhile, Lubbock-Cooper had already won three in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 22.7 points) and they went ahead and made it four on Thursday. They came out on top against the Dons by a score of 31-20. Given the Pirates' advantage in MaxPreps' Texas football rankings (they are ranked 161st, while the Dons are ranked 459th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Memorial's loss ended a three-game streak of wins at home and dropped them to 5-2. As for Lubbock-Cooper, they pushed their record up to 7-1 with the win, which was their fifth straight on the road dating back to last season.
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