Football Preview: Shafter Generals vs. St. Joseph Knights
The Shafter Generals will venture away from home to take on the St. Joseph Knights at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Shafter has four straight wins, St. Joseph has five straight losses), but none of that matters once you're on the field.
Shafter will head into Friday's game hoping to keep the good times rolling: they only won by three when they last took the field, which might have inspired the 38-point they dealt Edison on Friday. Shafter claimed a resounding 50-12 victory over Edison at home. Given the Generals' advantage in MaxPreps' California football rankings (they are ranked 157th, while the Tigers are ranked 412th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Mariyon Sloan continued his habit of posting crazy stat lines, rushing for 148 yards and two touchdowns on only 11 carries, while also throwing for 37 yards and a touchdown while completing 83.3% of his passes. His longest rush was for an impressive 56 yards, which helps to explain his lofty yards per carry total. Another player making a difference was Christopher Espinoza, who rushed for 93 yards and two touchdowns.
Shafter's defense was in the mix too, especially the secondary: they snagged two passes before it was all said and done. The picks came courtesy of Tremelle Spain and Aaron Jimenez.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Shafter was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 309 rushing yards. That's the most rushing yards they've posted was before the start of last season.
Meanwhile, St. Joseph lost a heartbreaker to Centennial when they met back in September of 2019, and they left with a heavy heart again on Friday. St. Joseph lost 35-14 to Centennial.
Shafter's record is now 4-0. As for St. Joseph, their defeat dropped their record down to 0-4.
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