After two games on the road, Hand is heading back home. They will welcome the Hillhouse Academics at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday. Expect the scorekeeper to be kept busy: if their previous games are any indication, the two teams will really light up the scoreboard.
Hand is headed in fresh off scoring the most points they have all season. They put the hurt on Shelton with a sharp 52-29 win on Friday. Fans of the Tigers have seen this all before: every one of the games they've played this season has ended in a blowout of 20+ points.
Hand can attribute much of their success to Quinton O?Dea, who picked up 81 receiving yards and two touchdowns, and Conor Casagrande, who rushed for 84 yards and a touchdown. O?Dea was no stranger to the big play, lighting up the secondary with a catch that went for 51 yards.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Hand was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 282 rushing yards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now rushed for at least 169 rushing yards in 15 consecutive games dating back to last season.
Meanwhile, Hillhouse put another one in the bag on Friday to keep their perfect season alive. They came out on top against Lyman Hall by a score of 38-27.
Hand pushed their record up to 4-0 with the victory, which was their seventh straight on the road dating back to last season. As for Hillhouse, their win bumped their record up to an identical 4-0.
Hand strolled past Hillhouse when the teams last played back in September of 2023 by a score of 17-0. Will Hand repeat their success, or does Hillhouse have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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