Winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Desert Edge). They blew past the Millennium Tigers 40-13 on the road on Friday. The contest was pretty much decided by the half, when the score had already reached 33-6.
A big part of Desert Edge's win came down to the chemistry between Blake Roskopf and his top target David Cabrera. Roskopf threw for 388 yards and three touchdowns while picking up 12.1 yards per attempt while Cabrera picked up 188 receiving yards and two touchdowns. Desert Edge is 2-1 when Cabrera posts 100 or more receiving yards, but 1-2 otherwise.
Desert Edge didn't go easy on the quarterback and picked off two passes before the game was over. The picks came courtesy of Camren Hamiel and Marshawn Coleman. Hamiel has been hot recently, having also posted five or more total tackles the last three times he's played. Desert Edge got some further help from Jerry Washington: he picked up a sack and made nine total tackles (2.0 for loss).
Although Millennium took the loss, they still got scores from Donovan Delong and Isaiah Salinas.
The victory made it two in a row for Desert Edge and bumps their season record up to 3-3. As for Millennium, this is the second loss in a row for them and nudges their season record down to 2-4.
Desert Edge will have some time to savor their win since their next game is a little ways off: they'll take on Sunrise Mountain at 7:00 p.m. on October 18th. Millennium also won't see the field for a while: their next game is against Canyon View at 7:00 p.m. on October 18th. Canyon View is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 27.8 points per game this season.
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