Clovis is on a seven-game streak of home wins (dating back to last season), while Clovis East is on a three-game streak of away wins: one of those streaks is about to end. The Clovis Cougars will square off against the Clovis East Timberwolves at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Clovis' defense has only allowed 14 points per game this season, so Clovis East's offense will have their work cut out for them.
Clovis is probably headed into the matchup with a chip on their shoulder considering Clovis North just ended the team's six-game winning streak on Friday. They came up short against the Broncos, falling 35-14. The match marked the Cougars' lowest-scoring contest so far this season.
Despite the loss, Clovis got top-tier performance from Maddox Merrill, who rushed for 115 yards and a touchdown. The dominant performance gave Merrill a new career-high in rushing yards.
Meanwhile, Clovis East hadn't done well against Central recently (they were 0-9 in their previous nine matchups), but they didn't let the past get in their way on Thursday. Clovis East came out on top against Central by a score of 34-26.
The match pitted two dominant signal callers against one another in Tyus Miller and Jelani Dippel. Miller had a solid game and threw for 152 yards and two touchdowns. Meanwhile, Dippel was balling out in the loss, throwing for 207 yards and a touchdown, while also rushing for 76 yards on only five carries.
Clovis East wouldn't let Central keep a hold of the ball as they managed to force three fumbles. It was truly a group effort as Caleb Solis, Tristan Kircher, and Joshua Wilson picked up one apiece. Wilson also set a new season high mark in total tackles with 12.
Having lost for the first time this season, Clovis fell to 6-1. As for Clovis East, their win bumped their record up to 7-0.
Things could have been worse for Clovis, but things could have been a whole lot better as they took a 49-34 loss to Clovis East in their previous meeting back in October of 2023. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Miller, who threw for 382 yards and six touchdowns while picking up 15.3 yards per attempt. Now that Clovis knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? Check MaxPreps.com after the match to find out.
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