Winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Portales). They blew past the Chaparral Lobos 44-19 on Friday. Perhaps unsurprisingly given the team's high-flying offense, the game also marked the team's biggest win of the season.
Portales was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 373 rushing yards. That's the most rushing yards they've posted since the start of last season.
When it comes to explaining why Chaparral lost, don't look at Raul Lopez. Despite the final result, he rushed for 170 yards and a touchdown while picking up 7.1 yards per carry. Those 170 rushing yards gave Lopez a new career-high. The team also got some help courtesy of Tyvin Howard, who gained 99 total yards and a touchdown.
Portales has been performing well recently as they've won four of their last five contests, which provided a nice bump to their 6-4 record this season. As for Chaparral, they dropped their record down to 3-7 with the defeat, which was their ninth straight on the road dating back to last season.
Portales will have a chance to go back-to-back against Chaparral: the pair's next game is a rematch scheduled at 7:00 p.m. on Friday.
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