After each having a week off, the Farmington Scorpions and the Cleveland Storm will shake off the cobwebs and square off against one another at 7:00 p.m. on Friday.
Farmington is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of New Mexico's top teams: La Cueva, who was ranked first in their home state at the time (Farmington was ranked tenth). Farmington was beaten by La Cueva 45-13 last Friday. The loss continues a trend for the Scorpions in their matchups with the Bears: they've now lost five in a row.
Meanwhile, Cleveland entered their tilt with Pebble Hills last Friday with three consecutive wins but they'll enter their next game with four. Everything went their way against the Spartans as they made off with a 49-27 win. Considering the Storm have won three contests by more than 21 points this season, Friday's blowout was nothing new.
Cleveland's success was spearheaded by the efforts of Jordan Hatch, who threw for 276 yards and three touchdowns while completing 72% of his passes, and Isaiah Yannis, who rushed for 149 yards and two touchdowns on only 15 carries. The dominant performance gave Yannis a new career-high in rushing yards. A healthy portion of that aerial production (91 yards to be exact) went to Jacob Maldonado.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Cleveland was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 385 rushing yards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now rushed for at least 152 rushing yards in four consecutive matchups.
Farmington's defeat dropped their record down to 3-2. As for Cleveland, their victory was their sixth straight on the road dating back to last season, which pushed their record up to 4-1.
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