The Colonial Forge Eagles are taking a road trip to face off against the Mountain View Wildcats at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Given that the two teams suffered a loss in their last games, they both have a little extra motivation heading into this matchup.
Colonial Forge is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Virginia's top teams: Riverbend, who was ranked 14th at the time (Colonial Forge was ranked eighth). The Eagles took a 41-27 bruising from the Bears on Friday. The loss was the Eagles' first of the season.
The match pitted two dominant signal callers against one another in Brock Brimhall and Ian Shook. Shook had a great game and rushed for 159 yards and two touchdowns on only 15 carries. Meanwhile, Brimhall was balling out in the loss, throwing for 204 yards and three TDs while completing 78.3% of his passes, and also rushing for 42 yards.
Meanwhile, Mountain View was not able to break out of their rough patch on Friday as the team picked up their fourth straight loss. They lost 42-16 to North Stafford. That's two games in a row now that the Wildcats have lost by exactly 26 points.
Mountain View's defeat dropped their record down to 2-6. As for Colonial Forge, their loss was their first of the season and makes their record 7-1.
Colonial Forge was able to grind out a solid victory over Mountain View when the teams last played back in October of 2024, winning 23-13. Will the Eagles repeat their success, or do the Wildcats have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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