Deer Valley is 1-9 against Heritage since November of 2014 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Friday. After each having a week off, the two teams will dust off their jerseys to square off against one another at 7:00 p.m. Hopefully Deer Valley focused on turnovers this week as the team gave up four last Friday.
Last Friday, Deer Valley earned a 28-21 win over Dougherty Valley.
The critical scores for Deer Valley came from Jahzeer Johnson, Anias Hightower, Gabriel Reis, and Jaylan Bryant.
Deer Valley didn't go easy on the quarterback and picked off two passes before the game was over. The picks came courtesy of Hightower and Bryant.
Meanwhile, Heritage had already won three in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 22.7 points) and they went ahead and made it four last Friday. They took down the Cowboys 42-28.
Mekhi Adanandus continued his habit of posting crazy stat lines, rushing for 176 yards and two touchdowns while picking up 7.7 yards per carry, and also picking up 45 receiving yards and a touchdown. That's the most rushing yards he has posted since back in October of 2023. Another player making a difference was Phillip Babbitt, who threw for 163 yards and four touchdowns on only 12 passes.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Heritage was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 220 rushing yards. The team's really been improving in that area: they've now improved they're rushing yard total in four consecutive matchups.
Deer Valley's victory bumped their record up to 2-3. As for Heritage, they pushed their record up to 4-1 with the win, which was their third straight on the road.
Deer Valley was taken down by Heritage 50-14 in their previous matchup back in October of 2023. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Adanandus, who rushed for 204 yards and a touchdown while picking up 10.2 yards per carry. Now that Deer Valley knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? There's only one way to find out.
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