The New Smyrna Beach Barracudas have the luxury of staying home for another week and will welcome the Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy Tigers at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Both are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.
New Smyrna Beach will roll into the game after a wild two-game stretch: they only put up ten points on Friday, then bounced right back against Pine Ridge on Monday. New Smyrna Beach blew past Pine Ridge 42-7. The Barracudas might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won six contests by 22 points or more this season.
Meanwhile, Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy got themselves on the board against Palm Beach Christian Prep on Friday, but Palm Beach Christian Prep never followed suit. They claimed a resounding 35-0 win over the Saints. That looming 35-0 mark stands out as the most commanding margin for the Tigers yet this season.
Rico Buitrago had an outrageously good game as he threw for 302 yards and four touchdowns on only 19 passes. Dylan Jensen was Buitrago's top target, picking up 162 receiving yards.
On the other side of the ball, a lot of the credit has to go to Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy's defense and their three sacks. In fact, those sacks all came courtesy of defensive juggernaut Oliver Esmailzadeh.
New Smyrna Beach's victory bumped their record up to 7-2. As for Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy, they are on a roll lately: they've won four of their last five matchups, which provided a massive bump to their 4-3 record this season.
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