The Los Lunas Tigers will venture away from home to challenge the Eldorado Golden Eagles at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday. Both come into the matchup bolstered by wins in their previous matches.
Los Lunas is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of New Mexico's top teams: Farmington, who was ranked 11th in their home state at the time (Los Lunas was ranked 13th). Los Lunas walked away with a 37-28 victory over Farmington on Friday. The high-flying offensive performance was a huge turnaround for the Tigers considering their seven-point performance the game before.
The critical scores for Los Lunas came from Gage Marquez, Jordan Howard, and Kaiden Reese.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Los Lunas was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 345 rushing yards. That's the most rushing yards they've posted since was before the start of last season.
Meanwhile, Eldorado beat Cibola 27-20 on Friday. The win made it back-to-back victories for the Golden Eagles.
Los Lunas pushed their record up to 1-1 with that win, which was their sixth straight at home dating back to last season. As for Eldorado, their record now sits at 2-0.
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