The Mountain Ridge Mountain Lions will face off against the O'Connor Eagles at 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday. Mountain Ridge will be looking to keep their nine-game home win streak dating back to last season alive.
Mountain Ridge is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Arizona's top teams: O'Connor, who was ranked 16th in their home state at the time (Mountain Ridge was ranked eighth). Mountain Ridge came out on top in a nail-biter against O'Connor on Thursday, sneaking past 10-7. For those keeping track at home, that's the closest win the Mountain Lions have posted since September 28th.
Even if they lost, O'Connor's defense still kept up the pressure with six sacks. The heavy lifting was done by Victoria Whipple and Alivia Escalera, who racked up all six sacks between them. Escalera has been hot recently, having also posted seven or more total tackles the last four times she's played.
Mountain Ridge has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won ten of their last 11 matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 13-3 record this season. As for O'Connor, the loss snapped their winning streak at ten games and leaves them with a 13-4 record.
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