After each having a week off, the Mesquite Skeeters and the Cedar Hill Longhorns will shake off the cobwebs and challenge one another at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Mesquite will be strutting in after a win while Cedar Hill will be coming in after a loss.
Mesquite took a loss when they played away from home back in September, but their home fans gave them all the motivation they needed last Friday. They came out on top against Horn by a score of 24-17.
Meanwhile, Cedar Hill fought the good fight in their overtime game against Lancaster last Friday but wound up with a less-than-desirable result. They fell to the Tigers 41-35. Despite running the score up even higher than they did in their prior game back in September (34), the Longhorns still had to take the loss.
Despite the defeat, Cedar Hill got top-tier performance from Jalen Brewster, who rushed for 57 yards and three touchdowns. Cedar Hill also got a significant boost from Juelz Carter, who ran away from the competition to the tune of 89 yards.
He was just one part of a punishing run game: Cedar Hill was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 236 rushing yards. The team's really been improving in that area: they've now improved they're rushing yard total in three consecutive matches.
Mesquite's victory ended a five-game drought at home dating back to last season and bumped them up to 2-3. As for Cedar Hill, they now also have a losing record at 2-3.
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