Football Preview: Newbury Park Panthers vs. Thousand Oaks Lancers
The Newbury Park Panthers are taking a road trip to challenge the Thousand Oaks Lancers at 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Newbury Park will be looking to extend their current eight-game winning streak.
Newbury Park will bounce into Tuesday's game after beating Westlake, who they had gone 0-3 against in their three prior meetings. Newbury Park put the hurt on Westlake with a sharp 39-18 victory on Thursday. The Panthers might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won six matches by 20 points or more this season.
Newbury Park didn't go easy on the quarterback and picked off two passes before the game was over. The picks came courtesy of Allison Galler and Greta Heath. What's more, Galler also racked up 38 rushing yards, the mostshe's had since back in August.
Meanwhile, Thousand Oaks and Westlake met for a duel last Tuesday where Thousand Oaks had to take the L. Thousand Oaks fell 18-7 to Westlake. While losing is never fun, the Lancers can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' California football rankings (they are ranked 240th, while the Warriors are ranked 45th).
Newbury Park pushed their record up to 13-6 with the win, which was their fifth straight at home. As for Thousand Oaks, this is the second loss in a row for them and nudges their season record down to 3-7.
Newbury Park was able to grind out a solid victory over Thousand Oaks in their previous meeting back in September, winning 26-18. The rematch might be a little tougher for Newbury Park since the squad won't have the home-field advantage this time around. We'll see if the change in venue makes a difference.
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