The Green Valley Gators will take on the Desert Pines Jaguars at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Green Valley has given up an average of 28.4 points per game this season, but Friday's game will give them a chance to turn things around.
Green Valley is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Nevada's top teams: Las Vegas, who was ranked tenth at the time (Green Valley was ranked 22nd). The Gators took a 35-26 hit to the loss column at the hands of the Wildcats on Friday. The Gators gained 86 more yards on the day, but it was the Wildcats that made the best use of them.
The match pitted two dominant signal callers against one another in Michael Lewis and Tanner Vibabul. Vibabul had a great game and threw for 266 yards and three TDs while completing 72% of his passes. Meanwhile, Lewis was balling out in the loss, throwing for 365 yards and three touchdowns while picking up 15.9 yards per attempt, and also rushing for 38 yards and one score.
Meanwhile, after only six points in their last contest, Desert Pines made sure to put some points up on the board against Legacy on Friday. The Jaguars breezed past the Longhorns to the tune of 51-16. The Jaguars pushed the score to 43-16 by the end of the third, a deficit the Longhorns had little chance of recovering from.
Green Valley better focus on containing Marcus Williams and Jerome Sequeira as the pair were huge in Desert Pines' win. Williams gained 166 total yards and four touchdowns, while Sequeira threw for 244 yards and three TDs on only 13 passes.
Desert Pines now has a winning record of 3-2. As for Green Valley, they now have a losing record of 2-3.
Green Valley ended up a good deal behind Desert Pines in their previous meeting back in September of 2022, losing 28-10. Can the Gators avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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