Football Preview: Lakewood Tigers vs. Golden Demons
The Lakewood Tigers will venture away from home to challenge the Golden Demons at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Lakewood will come in still looking for their first win of the season.
Lakewood's offense might be in the hot seat on Friday considering what happened against Fountain-Fort Carson on Thursday. They might be feeling deja-vu: they lost 49-0 to the Trojans, which was the same score (and result) they got the week prior. While losing is never fun, the Tigers can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Colorado football rankings (they are ranked 157th, while the Trojans are ranked 45th).
Meanwhile, Golden owes their defense a big pat on the back after their performance on Friday. They put the hurt on Poudre with a sharp 23-0 win. The victory made it back-to-back wins for the Demons.
Thatcher Matthews and Colin Meier were among the main playmakers for Golden as the former rushed for 89 yards and two touchdowns on only 11 carries and the latter rushed for 83 yards.
Golden wouldn't let Poudre keep a hold of the ball as they managed to force two fumbles. Golden can thank Liam Leffert and Noah Limback for forcing both of them. Limback also set a new season high mark in total tackles with eight. Golden got some further help from Cash Hansen: he made five total tackles (2.0 for loss) and snagged two interceptions.
Lakewood's loss dropped their record down to 0-4. As for Golden, the victory got them back to even at 2-2.
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