After each having a week off, the Cedar Hill Longhorns and the Mesquite Skeeters will dust off their jerseys to challenge one another at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Cedar Hill is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 29.5 points per game this season.
Cedar Hill fought the good fight in their overtime contest against Lancaster last Friday but wound up with a less-than-desirable result. They took a 41-35 hit to the loss column at the hands of the Tigers. Despite running the score up even higher than they did in their prior game back in September (34), the Longhorns still had to take the loss.
Despite the loss, Cedar Hill saw an underclassman step up: Jalen Brewster rushed for 57 yards and three touchdowns. Another player making a difference was CJ Castleberry, who rushed for 77 yards and a touchdown.
Even though they lost, Cedar Hill was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 236 rushing yards. The team's really been improving in that area: they've now improved they're rushing yard total in three consecutive games.
Meanwhile, there's no place like home for Mesquite, who bounced back after a loss on the road back in September. They came out on top against Horn by a score of 24-17 last Friday.
Cedar Hill now has a losing record at 2-3. As for Mesquite, their win ended a five-game drought at home dating back to last season and bumped them up to 2-3.
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