Football Preview: Cheshire Rams vs. Hand Tigers
Cheshire and Hand are an even 3-3 against one another since October of 2014, but not for long. After each having a week off, the two teams will dust off their jerseys to challenge one another at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Both are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.
Cheshire will roll into the matchup after a wild two-game stretch: they only put up ten points on October 4th, then bounced right back against Foran two weeks ago. Cheshire blew past Foran, posting a 31-3 victory on the road. The contest marked the Rams' most dominant win of the season so far.
Meanwhile, Hand put another one in the bag two weeks ago to keep their perfect season alive. They never let Hillhouse onto the board and left with a 26-0 victory. Fans of the Tigers have seen this all before: every one of the games they've played this season has ended in a blowout of 20+ points.
The critical scores for Hand came from Owen Donahey, Sam Markovitz, Kenny Pompilli, and Lucca Boyce.
Hand wouldn't let Hillhouse keep a hold of the ball as they managed to force two fumbles. Hand can thank Donahey and Nick Pompilli for forcing both of them. Hand got some further help from Morris Selmani: he picked up a sack and made 13 total tackles.
Cheshire now has a winning record of 3-2. As for Hand, they pushed their record up to 5-0 with the win, which was their eighth straight at home dating back to last season.
Everything came up roses for Cheshire against Hand in their previous meeting back in September of 2022, as the team secured a 28-0 victory. Does Cheshire have another victory up their sleeve, or will Hand turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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