Football Preview: Banning Pilots vs. San Pedro Pirates
The Banning Pilots will square off against the San Pedro Pirates at 5:00 p.m. on Friday. Both teams are coming into the match red-hot, with Banning sitting on five straight victories and San Pedro on seven.
Banning's defense heads into the game hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Monday. They blew past Narbonne 26-0. The Pilots might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won ten matchups by 21 points or more this season.
Alina Argueta was her usual excellent self, throwing for 103 yards and three touchdowns, while also rushing for 75 yards. She has been hot recently, having posted three or more passing touchdowns the last five times she's played. Kali Su'E made the highlight reel by snagging an interception and taking it all the way to the house.
Banning didn't go easy on the quarterback and picked off two passes before the game was over. The picks came courtesy of Adelaida Iba?ez-Eddy and Su'E.
Meanwhile, San Pedro won a contest that couldn't have been any closer, slipping by Narbonne 13-12. Given the Pirates' advantage in MaxPreps' California football rankings (they are ranked 51st, while the Gauchos are ranked 267th), the result on Friday wasn't entirely unexpected.
Banning pushed their record up to 12-5 with the win, which was their third straight on the road. As for San Pedro, they have been performing incredibly well recently as they've won 13 of their last 14 matches, which provided a nice bump to their 18-2 record this season.
Banning came up short against San Pedro in their previous meeting back in September, falling 32-19. Can Banning avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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