The St. Michael's Horsemen will challenge the West Las Vegas Dons at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday. St. Michael's is currently enjoying a perfect season and no doubt wants to keep things rolling.
St. Michael's is headed in fresh off scoring the most points they have all season. They breezed by Hope Christian at home to the tune of 60-7 last Saturday. Fans of the Horsemen have seen this all before: every one of the games they've played this season has ended in a blowout of 20+ points.
Meanwhile, West Las Vegas' game on Friday was all tied up 14-14 at the half, but sadly for them it didn't stay that way. They fell just short of Robertson by a score of 28-26. The Dons gained 71 more yards on the day, but it was the Cardinals that made the best use of them.
The match pitted two dominant signal callers against one another in Cj Perea and Jesse James Gonzalez. Gonzalez had a great game and threw for 225 yards and two touchdowns while completing 77.8% of his passes. Meanwhile, Perea was balling out in the loss, rushing for 113 yards and a touchdown on only 11 carries, while also throwing for 128 yards and a touchdown.
Even though they lost, West Las Vegas was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 243 rushing yards. That's a new trend for them: they were averaging 90 rushing yards per game earlier this season, but in their last three games they've averaged 153.3.
St. Michael's pushed their record up to 7-0 with the victory, which was their seventh straight at home dating back to last season. As for West Las Vegas, they now have a losing record at 3-4.
St. Michael's and West Las Vegas were neck-and-neck in their previous meeting back in October of 2023, but St. Michael's came up empty-handed after a 7-6 defeat. Can St. Michael's avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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