The Savio Eagles will challenge the St. Michael's Warriors at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. The squads are rolling into the game with opposing streaks: Savio has struggled recently with six losses in a row, while St. Michael's will arrive with three straight victories.
Savio is headed into the game out to prove that what happened against Concordia Lutheran on Friday (when they were outscored in every quarter) was just a minor bump in the road. Savio took a blow against Concordia Lutheran, falling 62-6. While losing is never fun, the Eagles can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Texas football rankings (they are ranked 1002nd, while the Crusaders are ranked 430th).
Meanwhile, St. Michael's didn't have too much breathing room in their matchup against Central Catholic on Friday, but they still walked away with a 41-36 win.
The match pitted two dominant signal callers against one another in Nico Anderson and Garrett Ticer. Anderson had a great game and threw for 394 yards and five touchdowns while picking up 15.2 yards per attempt. Meanwhile, Ticer was balling out in the loss, throwing for 335 yards and three touchdowns, while also rushing for 54 yards and a touchdown.
On the defensive side of the ball, a lot of the credit has to go to St. Michael's defensive line and their seven sacks. The heavy lifting was done by Miller Bohnsack and George Ramirez, who racked up four sacks between them. St. Michael's got some further help from Danny Smith: he picked up a sack, forced a fumble, and made six total tackles (2.0 for loss).
Savio's defeat dropped their record down to 1-6. As for St. Michael's, they pushed their record up to 6-1 with the victory, which was their fifth straight at home dating back to last season.
Savio was dealt a bruising 70-8 loss at the hands of St. Michael's in their previous meeting back in August of 2021. Thankfully for Savio, Carson Cruver (who threw for 168 yards and four touchdowns while completing 85.7% of his passes) won't be suiting up this time. Will that be enough to change the final result? There's only one way to find out.
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