The Las Vegas Wildcats will challenge the Canyon Springs Pioneers at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Las Vegas has six straight wins, Canyon Springs has four straight losses), but none of that matters once you're on the field.
Las Vegas is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Nevada's top teams: Green Valley, who was ranked 22nd at the time (Las Vegas was ranked tenth). The Wildcats came out on top against the Gators by a score of 35-26 on Friday.
The match pitted two dominant signal callers against one another in Tanner Vibabul and Michael Lewis. Vibabul had a great game and threw for 266 yards and three touchdowns while completing 72% of his passes. Meanwhile, Lewis was balling out in the loss, throwing for 365 yards and three TDs while picking up 15.9 yards per attempt, and also rushing for 38 yards and one score.
On the defensive side of the ball, a lot of the credit has to go to Las Vegas' defense and their three sacks. In that department, Gabriel Vidana was the leader with two.
Meanwhile, Canyon Springs played a tough contest on Friday in which they were outscored in every quarter. They were beaten by Arbor View 49-14. The Pioneers were in a tough position after the first half, with the score already sitting at 42-6.
Canyon Springs' defeat dropped their record down to 1-5. As for Las Vegas, their victory bumped their record up to 6-0.
Las Vegas was able to grind out a solid win over Canyon Springs when the teams last played back in October of 2019, winning 37-26. One of the biggest obstacles trying to stand in the way of that victory was the Pioneers' Martin Blake, who rushed for 186 yards and a pair of touchdowns while picking up 8.5 yards per carry, and also picked up 60 receiving yards. Now that he won't be playing on Friday, will it be easier for the Wildcats to walk away with another win? There's only one way to find out.
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