Football Preview: Mountain View Mountain Lions vs. Wellington Eagles
The Mountain View Mountain Lions will square off against the Wellington Eagles at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday. The two teams are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.
Mountain View took a loss when they played away from home last Friday, but their home fans gave them all the motivation they needed on Thursday. They blew past Mountain Range 45-3 at home. The match was pretty much decided by the half, when the score had already reached 27-3.
Keegan Amans was a one-man wrecking crew for Mountain View as he rushed for 157 yards and a touchdown while picking up 7.5 yards per carry, and also threw for 65 yards and a touchdown. The dominant performance gave Amans a new career-high in rushing yards. Another player making a difference was Tyson Mares-Benz, who picked up 64 receiving yards and three touchdowns.
Meanwhile, Wellington humbled Fort Lupton with a 48-6 victory. The Eagles pushed the score to 48-0 by the end of the third, a deficit the Bluedevils cut but never quite recovered from.
Tanner Gray and Cash Altschwager were among the main playmakers for Wellington as the former threw for 205 yards and three touchdowns on only 13 passes and the latter gained 169 total yards and three touchdowns. Altschwager got the majority of those receiving yards when he pulled down a pass and took off for a gain of 91 yards. Cyle Kisner helped Gray out on the ground, rushing for 47 yards and two touchdowns.
He was just one part of a punishing run game: Wellington was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 245 rushing yards. They easily outclassed their opponents in that department as Fort Lupton only rushed for 32.
One reason for the win was Wellington's imposing defense, which managed to get into the backfield for five sacks. In that department, Gray was the leader with three.
Mountain View now has a winning record of 2-1. As for Wellington, their victory was their fifth straight at home dating back to last season, which pushed their record up to 2-0.
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