Football Preview: St. Mary's Prep Eaglets vs. De La Salle Collegiate Pilots
The St. Mary's Prep Eaglets will challenge the De La Salle Collegiate Pilots at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Both are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.
St. Mary's Prep's defense heads into the contest hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Friday. They took their matchup at home with ease, bagging a 47-0 win over St. John's Jesuit. Given the Eaglets' advantage in MaxPreps' football rankings in their respective home states (they are ranked 15th in Michigan, while the Titans are ranked 235th in Ohio), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Darrin Jones Jr. had an outrageously good game as he rushed for 144 yards on only 11 carries. He got the majority of those rushing yards when he took off on a run and that went for an incredible 82 yards.
Meanwhile, everything went De La Salle Collegiate's way against King on Friday as De La Salle Collegiate made off with a 35-13 victory. The win made it back-to-back victories for the Pilots.
The critical scores for De La Salle Collegiate came from Drew Bouhanna, Isaac Gattine, and Anthony Bitonti.
St. Mary's Prep's win bumped their record up to 2-0. As for De La Salle Collegiate, their victory bumped their record up to an identical 2-0.
Things could have been worse for St. Mary's Prep, but things could have been a whole lot better as they took a 41-27 loss to De La Salle Collegiate in their previous meeting back in September of 2023. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of De La Salle Collegiate's Sante Gasperoni, who rushed for 220 yards and two touchdowns while picking up 8.8 yards per carry, and also threw for 166 yards and two touchdowns. Now that St. Mary's Prep knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? There's only one way to find out.
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