The South Lake Cavaliers will stay at home for another week and welcome the Hazel Park Vikings at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. South Lake is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 26.5 points per game this season.
South Lake is headed into the match out to prove that what happened against Michigan Collegiate on Friday (when they were outscored in every quarter) was just a minor bump in the road. South Lake lost 50-24 to Michigan Collegiate. While losing is never fun, the Cavaliers can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Michigan football rankings (they are ranked 337th, while the Cougars are ranked 163rd).
Despite the defeat, South Lake got top-tier performance from Rafeal Payne, who rushed for 106 yards and a touchdown on only 13 carries. The dominant performance gave Payne a new career-high in rushing yards.
Meanwhile, Hazel Park was able to grind out a solid victory over University Prep on Saturday, taking the game 15-8.
Montrell Parker continued his habit of posting crazy stat lines, rushing for 162 yards and a touchdown while picking up 10.1 yards per carry. His rushing production has been exceptional as that marked his seventh straight game with at least 130 rushing yards.
South Lake's loss dropped their record down to 5-4. As for Hazel Park, they have been performing well recently as they've won three of their last four games, which provided a nice bump to their 6-3 record this season.
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