Football Preview: Mounds View Mustangs vs. Coon Rapids Cardinals
The Mounds View Mustangs will challenge the Coon Rapids Cardinals at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Mounds View has four straight wins, Coon Rapids has 14 straight defeats), but none of that matters once you're on the field.
If Mounds View beats Coon Rapids with 37 points on Friday, it's going to be the squad's new lucky number: they've won their past two contests with that exact score. Mounds View breezed by St. Michael-Albertville at home to the tune of 37-0 on Thursday. The Mustangs might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won six matches by 21 points or more this season.
Mitchell Olson had a dynamite game for Mounds View, rushing for 124 yards and two touchdowns while picking up 7.3 yards per carry. Olson was no stranger to the big play, turning on the jets for a run that went for 55 yards. Jacob Sampson was another key player, rushing for 29 yards and a touchdown.
Meanwhile, it was a proper cat-fight when Coon Rapids duked it out withFarmington on Thursday. Coon Rapids was beaten by Farmington 48-6. While losing is never fun, the Cardinals can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Minnesota football rankings (they are ranked 245th, while the Tigers are ranked 86th).
Mounds View pushed their record up to 6-2 with the victory, which was their fourth straight at home. As for Coon Rapids, their loss dropped their record down to 0-8.
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