Football Preview: St. Michael's Warriors vs. Antonian Prep Apaches
After each having a week off, the St. Michael's Warriors and the Antonian Prep Apaches will dust off their jerseys to take on one another at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Antonian Prep took a loss in their last match and will be looking to turn the tables on St. Michael's, who comes in off a win.
St. Michael's defense heads into the contest hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed last Friday. They simply couldn't be stopped as they easily beat St. Andrew's 34-0 at home. The Warriors pushed the score to 31-0 by the end of the third, a deficit the Highlanders had no chance of recovering from.
A big part of St. Michael's victory came down to the chemistry between Nico Anderson and his top target Pierce Kovacs. Anderson threw for 102 yards and two touchdowns while Kovacs picked up 39 receiving yards and a touchdown. Kovacs was even better on defense, making three total tackles and defending two passes in addition to snagging two interceptions.
St. Michael's defense was in the mix too, especially the secondary: they snagged three passes before it was all said and done. The picks came courtesy of Kovacs and Will Garcia. St. Michael's got some further help from Miller Bohnsack: he picked up 1.5 sacks and made eight total tackles (3.5 for loss).
Meanwhile, it's never fun to lose, and it's even less fun to lose 59-21, which was the final score in Antonian Prep's tilt against Regents last Friday. While losing is never fun, the Apaches can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Texas football rankings (they are ranked 495th, while the Knights are ranked 129th).
The win (which was St. Michael's third in a row) raised their record to 3-0. As for Antonian Prep, they now have a losing record at 1-2.
St. Michael's strolled past Antonian Prep when the teams last played back in October of 2015 by a score of 21-3. Will St. Michael's repeat their success, or does Antonian Prep have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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