Football Preview: Mountain View Toros vs. Centennial Coyotes
Mountain View has won six straight games at home, while Centennial has won six straight on the road, but those streaks won't matter much on Saturday. The Mountain View Toros will welcome the Centennial Coyotes at 1:00 p.m. Both might be coming in a bit winded given these two teams combined for 879 yards in their previous games.
Mountain View is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Friday. They won a matchup that couldn't have been any closer, slipping by Brophy College Prep 28-27. The score was all tied up 14-14 at the break, but the Toros were the better team in the second half.
The match pitted two dominant signal callers against one another in Brady Goodman and Case Vanden Bosch. Goodman had a great game and threw for 348 yards and three touchdowns while picking up 10.9 yards per attempt. Meanwhile, Vanden Bosch was balling out in the loss, throwing for 322 yards and three touchdowns, while also rushing for 53 yards and a touchdown.
Meanwhile, Centennial faced Queen Creek in a battle between two of the state's top teams on Friday. Centennial secured a 37-32 W over Queen Creek. 37 seems to be a good number for the Coyotes as the team scooped up a victory with the same number of points in their previous game.
Centennial relied on the efforts of Owen Reynoso, who rushed for 105 yards and two touchdowns on only 13 carries, and Kainan Manna, who rushed for 33 yards and a touchdown. That's the most rushing yards Manna has posted since back in September.
Another reason for the win was Centennial's imposing defensive line, which managed to get into the backfield for 8.5 sacks. The heavy lifting was done by Taurean Hall and Aaron Alvarez, who racked up four sacks between them. Alvarez has been hot for a while, having also posted five or more total tackles the last ten times he's played.
Special teams also deserves some recognition, posting 13 points in total. All came courtesy of Alvarez: he went 3-for-3 kicking field goals for nine points, and 4-for-4 kicking extra points for an additional four.
Centennial's win bumped their record up to 6-7. As for Mountain View, their victory bumped their record up to 12-1.
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