Football Preview: South Dade Buccaneers vs. Santaluces Chiefs
South Dade has enjoyed the comforts of home their last three games, but now they'll head out on the road. They will challenge the Santaluces Chiefs at 7:30 p.m. on Friday. Hopefully South Dade focused on turnovers this week as the team gave up five last Friday.
South Dade is coming in off a wild two-game stretch: after soaring to 38 points back in October, they were much more limited against Southridge last Friday. They lost 33-7 to the Spartans. Despite 111 more yards than the Spartans, the Buccaneers couldn't convert that extra yardage to scores.
South Dade's loss shouldn't obscure the performances of X?Zayvion Clayton, who rushed for 122 yards on only nine carries, and Javarius Wright, who picked up 59 receiving yards.
Meanwhile, Santaluces waltzed into their contest on Thursday with three straight wins... but they left with four. They put the hurt on the Cobras with a sharp 35-13 victory. The Chiefs might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won six games by 22 points or more this season.
Santaluces didn't go easy on the quarterback and picked off two passes before the game was over. The picks came courtesy of Zechariah Souverain and Andreas Jakusik.
Santaluces pushed their record up to 8-2 with the win, which was their tenth straight at home dating back to last season. Those good results were due in large part to their defensive effort, having only surrendered 14.8 points per game. As for South Dade, with the defeat, they broke their three-game winning streak and moved their record to 5-5.
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