Football Game Preview: Western Hills Plays at Home

By Team Reports Sep 3, 2024, 4:26am

Football Preview: Western Hills Mustangs vs. New Richmond Lions

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The Western Hills Mustangs will challenge the New Richmond Lions at 7:00 p.m. on Friday.

Western Hills' offense might be in the hot seat on Friday considering what happened against Roger Bacon on Friday. They were dealt a 47-0 loss at the hands of the Spartans. The Mustangs haven't had much luck with the Spartans recently, as the team's come up short the last six times they've met.

Meanwhile, New Richmond didn't have too much trouble with Williamsburg at home on Friday as they won 34-19. The win made it back-to-back victories for the Lions.

Braylon Patchell went supernova for New Richmond, rushing for 182 yards and two touchdowns while picking up 9.6 yards per carry. With that strong performance, Patchell is now averaging an impressive 114 rushing yards per game. Another player making a difference was Trey Sininger, who picked up 95 receiving yards and a touchdown.

Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, New Richmond was moving up and down the field and finished the game with 440 total yards. That's the most total yards they've posted since back in September of 2023.

Western Hills' defeat dropped their record down to 0-2. As for New Richmond, their win bumped their record up to 2-0.

Western Hills suffered a grim 48-26 defeat to New Richmond in their previous meeting back in September of 2023. That match was all but decided by halftime, at which point Western Hills was down 41-20.

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