Two dominant signal callers in Daylin James and Kayne Horibe are getting ready to go toe-to-toe. The Mater Academy East Las Vegas Knights and the Pahrump Valley Trojans are set to duel on Friday. Mater Academy East Las Vegas is coming into the match on a four-game losing streak.
Last Friday, Mater Academy East Las Vegas came up short against Sports Leadership & Management and fell 33-21.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Pahrump Valley). They simply couldn't be stopped on Thursday as they easily beat Boulder City 55-20. The result was nothing new for the Trojans, who have now won four games by 21 points or more so far this season.
Horibe was his usual excellent self, throwing for 331 yards and five touchdowns while completing 73.3% of his passes, and also rushing for 42 yards and a touchdown. He has been hot recently, having posted three or more passing touchdowns the last four times he's played. Randal Murray was Horibe's top target, picking up 107 receiving yards and three touchdowns.
Pahrump Valley didn't go easy on the quarterback and picked off two passes before the game was over. The picks came courtesy of Lucas Gavenda and Austin Alvarez. Alvarez also set a new season high mark in receiving yards with 174. Pahrump Valley got some further help from Iyan Bosket: he made 17 total tackles (1.0 for loss).
Mater Academy East Las Vegas' loss dropped their record down to 4-6. As for Pahrump Valley, they have been performing well recently as they've won four of their last five contests, which provided a nice bump to their 5-4 record this season.
Mater Academy East Las Vegas came up short against Pahrump Valley when the teams last played back in September, falling 42-30. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Horibe, who rushed for 163 yards and three touchdowns while picking up 9.1 yards per carry. Now that Mater Academy East Las Vegas knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? Check MaxPreps.com after the match to find out.
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