Football Game Preview: Mater Dei Monarchs vs. JSerra Catholic Lions + How To Watch

Mater Dei has gone a perfect 10-0 against JSerra Catholic recently and they'll look to pad the win column further on Friday. The Monarchs will look to defend their home field against the Lions at 7:00 p.m. Mater Dei will be strutting in after a win while JSerra Catholic will be coming in after a defeat.

Mater Dei is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of California's top teams: Servite, who was ranked 12th at the time (Mater Dei was ranked fifth). The Monarchs walked away with a 29-19 victory over the Friars on Saturday. The Monarchs pushed the score to 29-7 by the end of the third, a deficit the Friars cut but never quite recovered from.

Kayden Dixon-Wyatt

Receiving Yards

09/12/25 @ Centennial	165
10/18/25 vs Servite	98
10/03/25 @ Orange Lutheran	92
08/23/25 @ St. Thomas Aquinas	59
09/05/25 vs Kahuku	25

Mater Dei can attribute much of their success to Kennie Leggett, who rushed for 57 yards and a pair of TDs. The dominant performance also gave Leggett a new career-high in rushing touchdowns (two). Kayden Dixon-Wyatt also helped out with an impressive 98 receiving yards.

Wins are hard to come by when you can't run the rock, something Mater Dei proved: they limited Servite to a paltry 2.5 yards per carry. The Monarchs hasn't allowed more than 3.2 yards per carry in three consecutive games.

Meanwhile, JSerra Catholic was not able to break out of their rough patch on Friday as the team picked up their third straight loss. They had to suffer through a 63-23 loss at the hands of Orange Lutheran. The Lions were in a tough position after the first half, with the score already sitting at 49-10.

Mater Dei will have to keep a close watch on Gino Wang and Dylan Brown, a pair of players who had a big impact on JSerra Catholic's prior game. Wang rushed for 59 yards and one touchdown on only eight carries, while Brown picked up 102 receiving yards and one score. Brown got the majority of those receiving yards when he pulled down a pass and took off for a gain of 80 yards.

JSerra Catholic's defeat dropped their record down to 3-5. As for Mater Dei, they are on a roll lately: they've won three of their last four contests. That's provided a nice bump to their 5-2 record this season.

Everything went Mater Dei's way against JSerra Catholic in their previous matchup back in October of 2024, as Mater Dei made off with a 41-17 win. Do the Monarchs have another victory up their sleeve, or will the Lions turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.