The Millennium Tigers will square off against the Campo Verde Coyotes at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday. Millennium is coming into the game hot, having won their last five games.
Millennium is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Arizona's top teams: Mountain View, who was ranked second in their home state at the time (Millennium was ranked third). Millennium enjoyed a cozy 21-7 win over Mountain View on Tuesday.
The critical scores for Millennium came from Andrea Carmona, Breana Saunders, and Mackenzie Rubel.
Millennium's defense made their presence known, laying out Tierah Metcalf. six times. It was truly a group effort as Tatiana Melvin, Akyra Dale, and Jada Rodriguez picked up two apiece. Dale has been hot recently, having also posted two or more sacks the last three times she's played.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Campo Verde). They blew past Maricopa 52-0 on the road on Wednesday. The result was nothing new for the Coyotes, who have now won six contests by 20 points or more so far this season.
A big part of Campo Verde's victory came down to the chemistry between Isabella Pap and her top target Madison Coger. Pap threw for 381 yards and four touchdowns while completing 72% of her passes while Coger picked up 223 receiving yards and two touchdowns. Coger also put in work on the defensive side of the ball, picking up a sack and making two total tackles.
Millennium pushed their record up to 11-2 with the win, which was their sixth straight at home. As for Campo Verde, they are on a roll lately: they've won eight of their last nine matches, which provided a nice bump to their 9-3 record this season.
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