The Hillside Comets will head out to square off against the Scotch Plains-Fanwood Raiders at 7:00 p.m. on Friday.
Hillside can't be to happy about their upcoming road matchup considering what happened when they opened their season on the away from home two weeks ago. They took a 30-14 bruising from Bernards. The Comets were down 30-8 at the end of the third quarter, which was just too much to recover from.
Meanwhile, Scotch Plains-Fanwood got themselves on the board against New Brunswick on Saturday, but New Brunswick never followed suit. They breezed by the Zebra on the road to the tune of 42-0. The high-flying offensive performance was a huge turnaround for the Raiders considering their seven-point performance the game before.
This one was won in the trenches and the lion's share of the credit has to go to Tyiane Rasberry and he. Rasberry rushed for 97 yards and two touchdowns on only seven carries while he rushed for 97 yards and two touchdowns on only seven carries. Jayden Richards's longest rush was for an impressive 50 yards, which helps to explain his lofty yards per carry total.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Scotch Plains-Fanwood was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 329 rushing yards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now rushed for at least 164 rushing yards in five consecutive matches dating back to last season.
One reason for the win was Scotch Plains-Fanwood's imposing defense, which managed to get into the backfield for five sacks. Nicholas Marranca was especially locked on to New Brunswick's QB and sacked him twice.
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