After each having a week off, the Holy Cross Crusaders and the Crosby Bulldogs will shake off the rust and duke it out at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday. Both teams took a loss in their last game, so they'll have plenty of motivation to get the 'W'.
Holy Cross made up a huge gap compared to their last game against Ansonia, but they still couldn't quite topple them. The Crusaders fell just short of the Chargers by a score of 28-26 last Friday. The Crusaders' defeat signaled the end of their three-game winning streak.
Holy Cross might have lost, but man, Brady Lombardo was a machine: he threw for 243 yards and a pair of TDs, and also punched in two scores on the ground.
Meanwhile, it's never fun to lose, and it's even less fun to lose 44-8, which was the final score in Crosby's tilt against Woodland Regional last Saturday. The Bulldogs haven't had much luck with the Hawks recently, as the team has come up short the last seven times they've met.
Holy Cross' loss was their first in the league, dropping their league record down to 2-1 and their overall record down to 3-2. As for Crosby, they now have a losing record of 2-3.
Everything came up roses for Holy Cross against Crosby in their previous meeting back in October of 2022, as the team secured a 35-8 victory. In that contest, the Crusaders amassed a halftime lead of 21-0, an impressive feat they'll look to repeat on Thursday.
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