The Douglas Tigers will host the Bishop Manogue Miners at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday. Douglas is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 31.6 points per game this season.
Douglas is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Nevada's top teams: Reed, who was ranked seventh in their home state at the time (Douglas was ranked 14th). Douglas took a 35-16 bruising from Reed on Friday.
Although Douglas took the loss, they still got scores from Brenton Weston and Zachary Jackson.
Meanwhile, Bishop Manogue had already won three in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 15.7 points) and they went ahead and made it four on Friday. Everything went their way against the Huskies as they made off with a 48-26 win. Considering the Miners have won three games by more than 20 points this season, Friday's blowout was nothing new.
The match pitted two dominant signal callers against one another in Brandon Mann and Braylon Wilson. Mann had a great game and threw for 226 yards and five touchdowns while completing 80% of his passes. Meanwhile, Wilson was balling out in the loss, rushing for 118 yards and two touchdowns while picking up 7.4 yards per carry, and also throwing for 213 yards and a touchdown.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Bishop Manogue was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 257 rushing yards. That's the most rushing yards they've posted since back in November of 2023.
Douglas' loss dropped their record down to 6-3. As for Bishop Manogue, their victory was their ninth straight at home dating back to last season, which pushed their record up to 6-3.
Douglas might still be hurting after the 35-15 defeat they got from Bishop Manogue in their previous matchup back in March of 2021. Thankfully for Douglas, Mikey Schneider (who rushed for 76 yards and two touchdowns on only nine carries) 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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