The Lyndhurst Golden Bears will take on the Shabazz Bulldogs at 6:00 p.m. on Saturday. Both squads will be entering this one on the heels of a big victory.
Lyndhurst will roll into the contest after a wild two-game stretch: they only put up ten points last Saturday, then bounced right back against Park Ridge on Friday. The Golden Bears took their matchup with ease, bagging a 35-7 win over the Owls. The Golden Bears pushed the score to 28-7 by the end of the third, a deficit the Owls had little chance of recovering from.
Multiple players turned in solid performances to lead Lyndhurst to victory, but perhaps none more so than Avery Cano, who rushed for 128 yards and one touchdown on only 15 carries. Allen Frias was another key player, gaining 97 total yards and two touchdowns.
They were just one part of a punishing run game: Lyndhurst was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 200 rushing yards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now rushed for at least 155 rushing yards in eight consecutive games.
Meanwhile, Shabazz had already won four in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 19 points) and they went ahead and made it five on Friday. They claimed a resounding 42-7 victory over the Hillbillies. The final result isn't all that surprising considering the Bulldogs' considerable advantage in MaxPreps' New Jersey football rankings (they are ranked 39th, while the Hillbillies are ranked 199th).
Shabazz's win bumped their record up to 7-1. As for Lyndhurst, their victory bumped their record up to 6-3.
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