Football Preview: Arcata Tigers vs. Winters Warriors
Two dominant signal callers in Luke Lemke and Lane Brown are getting ready to go toe-to-toe. The Arcata Tigers are taking a road trip to square off against the Winters Warriors at 7:30 p.m. on Friday. Both teams are coming into the matchup red-hot, with Arcata sitting on three straight wins and Winters on 12.
Arcata is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Saturday. They came out on top against Miramonte by a score of 28-21.
Meanwhile, a well-balanced attack led Winters over East Nicolaus in every quarter on their way to victory last Saturday. Given that consistent dominance, it should come as no surprise that Winters blew East Nicolaus out of the water with a 45-7 final score. The Warriors might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won ten games by 21 points or more this season.
Brown was his usual excellent self, throwing for 268 yards and three touchdowns while completing 77.8% of his passes, and also rushing for 46 yards and a touchdown. Jesse Madsen also helped with two touchdowns in total.
Winters wouldn't let East Nicolaus keep a hold of the ball as they managed to force two fumbles. Winters can thank Jake Woods and Danny Sanchez for forcing both of them. Sanchez also set a new season high mark in total tackles with ten. Winters got some further help from Julian Herrera: he made 12 total tackles (1.0 for loss).
Winters' victory was their eighth straight at home dating back to last season, which pushed their record up to 12-0. Those good results were due in large part to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 45.1 points per game. As for Arcata, their win bumped their record up to 12-1.
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