The King/Drew Golden Eagles's road trip will continue as they head out to face the Narbonne Gauchos at 4:00 p.m. on Saturday. Both have allowed few points on average, (King/Drew: 10.2, Narbonne: 10.8) so any points scored will be well earned.
King/Drew is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Wednesday. Their defense stepped up to hand Jefferson a 6-0 shutout.
Meanwhile, Narbonne waltzed into their match on Wednesday with six straight wins... but they left with seven. They won a matchup that couldn't have been any closer, slipping by the Pythons 7-6. Seven seems to be a good number for the Gauchos as the team scooped up a victory with the same number of points in their previous game.
Narbonne found their leader in freshman Hidayah Meadows, who rushed for 127 yards and a touchdown on only nine carries. The dominant performance gave Meadows a new career-high in rushing yards.
On the defensive side of the ball, a lot of the credit has to go to Narbonne's defense and their six sacks. In fact, those sacks all came courtesy of defensive juggernaut Shayla Rivera.
King/Drew is on a roll lately: they've won five of their last six games, which provided a nice bump to their 18-13 record this season. Those victories were due in large part to their defensive effort, having only surrendered 7.8 points per game. As for Narbonne, their win bumped their record up to 16-9.
King/Drew and Narbonne were neck-and-neck in their previous matchup back in November of 2023, but King/Drew came up empty-handed after a 7-6 defeat. Can King/Drew avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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