Lovington hasn't had much luck against Goddard recently, but that could start to change on Friday. The Lovington Wildcats will head out to take on the Goddard Rockets at 7:00 p.m. Lovington is currently enjoying a perfect season and no doubt wants to keep things rolling.
Lovington is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of New Mexico's top teams: Roswell, who was ranked sixth in their home state at the time (Lovington was ranked fourth). Lovington strolled past Roswell with points to spare on Friday, taking the game 35-21.
Lovington can attribute much of their success to Ondalis Cardenas, who rushed for 85 yards and three touchdowns, and Mathew Prudencio, who threw for 245 yards and two touchdowns while completing 71.4% of his passes. The dominant performance gave Prudencio a new career-high in rushing yards.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Goddard). They claimed a resounding 42-6 win over Santa Teresa at home. The victory made it back-to-back wins for the Rockets.
Lovington pushed their record up to 4-0 with that victory, which was their seventh straight at home dating back to last season. As for Goddard, the win also got them back to even at 2-2.
Lovington was taken down by Goddard 50-0 in their previous matchup back in March of 2021. Can Lovington avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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