The St. Joseph Falcons will take on the St. Thomas Aquinas Trojans at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday. St. Joseph will be looking to keep their three-game home win streak alive.
St. Joseph is probably headed into the game with a chip on their shoulder considering Phillipsburg just ended the team's five-game winning streak on Friday. They were dealt a 49-14 defeat at the hands of the Stateliners. The contest marked the Falcons' lowest-scoring matchup so far this season.
The match pitted two dominant signal callers against one another in Justin Scaramuzzo and Jett Genovese. Genovese had a great game and rushed for 83 yards on only six carries. Meanwhile, Scaramuzzo was balling out in the loss, throwing for 273 yards and two touchdowns while picking up 10.5 yards per attempt.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask St. Thomas Aquinas). They took their match at home on Friday with ease, bagging a 57-7 victory over Edison. The Trojans might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won four games by 25 points or more this season.
Multiple players turned in solid performances to lead St. Thomas Aquinas to victory, but perhaps none more so than Ca'Si Thomas, who rushed for 88 yards and two touchdowns. The team also got some help courtesy of Chukwuma Odoh, who rushed for 107 yards and a touchdown on only ten carries.
He was just one part of a punishing run game: St. Thomas Aquinas was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 301 rushing yards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now rushed for at least 150 rushing yards in eight consecutive matchups dating back to last season.
Having lost for the first time this season, St. Joseph fell to 5-1. As for St. Thomas Aquinas, their win bumped their record up to 5-2.
Everything came up roses for St. Joseph against St. Thomas Aquinas when the teams last played back in November of 2015, as the team secured a 35-0 victory. Will St. Joseph repeat their success, or does St. Thomas Aquinas have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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