St. Joseph Regional has gone 8-2 against DePaul Catholic recently and they'll look to pad the win column further on Saturday. The St. Joseph Regional Green Knights will look to defend their home field against the DePaul Catholic Spartans at 1:00 p.m. St. Joseph Regional is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 32.5 points per game this season.
St. Joseph Regional is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of New Jersey's top teams: Bergen Catholic, who was ranked first in their home state at the time (St. Joseph Regional was ranked seventh). St. Joseph Regional fell 28-17 to Bergen Catholic on Saturday. The contest marked the Green Knights' lowest-scoring matchup so far this season.
Although St. Joseph Regional took the loss, they still got scores from Mekhi Rossignol and Nathan Bailey.
St. Joseph Regional didn't go easy on the quarterback and picked off two passes before the game was over. In fact, those interceptions all came courtesy of defensive juggernaut Jahmir Joseph. He has been hot , having also posted at least one defended passe the last five times he's played. Another thorn in Bergen Catholic's side was AJ Revella, who picked up a sack and made 13 total tackles (2.0 for loss).
Meanwhile, DePaul Catholic's undefeated season came to an end after seven games on Friday. They were just a hair shy of victory and fell 52-51 to Delbarton. That makes it the first time this season the Spartans have let down their home crowd.
The match pitted two dominant backs against one another in Nolan James and Brock Dandridge. Dandridge had a great game and gained 144 total yards and a touchdown. Meanwhile, James was balling out in the loss, rushing for 157 yards and two touchdowns, while also picking up 41 receiving yards.
St. Joseph Regional's loss dropped their record down to 5-3. As for DePaul Catholic, their defeat was their first of the season and makes their record 7-1.
Saturday's game might be decided in the on the ground. St. Joseph Regional has been excellent on the ground this season, having averaged 165.8 rushing yards per game. However, it's not like DePaul Catholic struggles in that department as they've been averaging 230.7. It's looking like Saturday's match might have some serious battles in the trenches.
St. Joseph Regional didn't have too much breathing room in their matchup against DePaul Catholic in their previous matchup back in September of 2022, but they still walked away with a 36-31 win. One of the biggest obstacles trying to stand in the way of that victory was DePaul Catholic's Patrick Grusser (Depaul Catholic Hs), who threw for 275 yards and two touchdowns while picking up 10.6 yards per attempt, and also rushed for 55 yards and a touchdown. Now that he won't be playing on Saturday, will it be easier for St. Joseph Regional to walk away with another win? Check MaxPreps.com after the match to find out.
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