The Morgan Park Mustangs will head out on the road to challenge the Westinghouse Warriors at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday. Both are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.
Morgan Park's defense heads into the matchup hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Friday. They blew past Oak Park-River Forest 26-0. Given the Mustangs' advantage in MaxPreps' Illinois football rankings (they are ranked 45th, while the Huskies are ranked 273rd), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Terrance Gurley went supernova for Morgan Park, rushing for 161 yards and two touchdowns on only 14 carries.
Gurley wasn't the only one working in the rushing yards department: Morgan Park was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 253 rushing yards. That's the most rushing yards they've posted since back in August of 2023.
Another reason for the win was Morgan Park's imposing defense, which managed to get into the backfield for five sacks. In that department, Demetris Rule was the leader with three.
Meanwhile, Westinghouse won against Marshall/Raby last Saturday with 44 points and they decided to stick to that point total again on Saturday. Westinghouse claimed a resounding 44-0 victory over Chicago Vocational on the road. The win made it back-to-back victories for the Warriors.
The win got Morgan Park back to even at 1-1. As for Westinghouse, their record is now 2-0.
Morgan Park couldn't quite finish off Westinghouse when the teams last played back in September of 2018 and fell 14-12. Can Morgan Park avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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