Football Preview: Massaponax Panthers vs. Mountain View Wildcats
The Massaponax Panthers will face off against the Mountain View Wildcats at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Massaponax is coming into the matchup on a three-game losing streak.
Mountain View is facing Massaponax at the wrong time: Massaponax suffered their first home loss of the season on Friday and they're likely out for redemption. They had to suffer through a 47-19 loss at the hands of the Warriors. While losing is never fun, the Panthers can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Virginia football rankings (they are ranked 86th, while the Warriors are ranked tenth).
Although Massaponax took the loss, they still got scores from Josiah Perry, Malik Turner-Gutierrez, and Turner-Gutierrez.
Even though they lost, Massaponax was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 222 rushing yards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now rushed for at least 154 rushing yards in four consecutive games.
Meanwhile, Mountain View's contest on Friday was close up to the half, which is when they kicked things up a notch. Everything went their way against Centreville as Mountain View made off with a 40-14 win.
Massaponax's defeat dropped their record down to 1-3. As for Mountain View, they now have a winning record of 2-1.
Massaponax suffered a grim 43-21 defeat to Mountain View in their previous matchup back in September of 2023. That match was all but decided by halftime, at which point Massaponax was down 29-0.
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