The Salado Eagles's road trip will continue as they head out to face the Lago Vista Vikings at 7:30 p.m. on Friday. Salado will be hoping to continue their three-game streak of scoring more points each contest than the last.
Salado is headed in fresh off scoring the most points they have all season. They took their match on the road on Friday with ease, bagging a 67-39 victory over Little River Academy.
Salado relied on the efforts of Lincoln Hossfeld, who rushed for 148 yards and a touchdown while picking up 8.2 yards per carry, and Jackson Turk, who rushed for 126 yards and two touchdowns on only six carries. The dominant performance gave Hossfeld a new career-high in rushing yards. Gabriel Merriman did his part to keep the secondary busy, picking up 88 receiving yards.
Salado's defensive line stepped up as well, laying out Brody Allen. seven times. The heavy lifting was done by Brodie Landon and Cade Fenoglio, who racked up four sacks between them. Landon is also on a roll when it comes to total tackles, as he's now made five or more in the last four games he's played dating back to last season. Salado got some further help from Devonte Foster: he forced a fumble and made 13 total tackles (1.0 for loss).
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Salado was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 493 rushing yards. That's the most rushing yards they've managed all season.
Meanwhile, everything came up roses for Lago Vista on the road against Marion on Friday as the team secured a 42-7 win. That looming 42-7 mark stands out as the most commanding margin for the Vikings yet this season.
The victory got Salado back to even at 2-2. As for Lago Vista, the win made it two in a row for them and bumps their season record up to 3-1.
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