The El Camino Colts will face off against the Gunn Titans at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday. Expect the scorekeeper to be kept busy: if their previous games are any indication, both will really light up the scoreboard.
El Camino is headed in fresh off scoring the most points they have all season. They really took it to Lynbrook for the full four quarters, racking up a 63-6 victory on the road. The Colts pushed the score to 56-0 by the end of the third, a deficit the Vikings had no chance of recovering from.
Meanwhile, Gunn put another one in the bag last Friday to keep their perfect season alive. They never let Cupertino onto the board and left with a 47-0 win. Fans of the Titans have seen this all before: every one of the games they've played this season has ended in a blowout of 20+ points.
Yonatan Smolyar had a dynamite game for Gunn, rushing for 97 yards and a touchdown on only seven carries. Smolyar's longest rush was for an impressive 65 yards, which helps to explain his lofty yards per carry total. Jeremiah G Davis made the highlight reel by snagging an interception and taking it all the way to the house.
Gunn didn't go easy on the quarterback and picked off two passes before the game was over. G Davis picked up that interception and then proceeded to rub salt in the wound by taking it back the other way for a touchdown. Luke Hines was another major factor on D, making 12 total tackles (3.0 for loss).
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Gunn was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 236 rushing yards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now rushed for at least 227 rushing yards in five consecutive matches.
El Camino's victory ended a six-game drought on the road dating back to last season and puts them at 3-3. As for Gunn, their win was their third straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 5-0.
El Camino was able to grind out a solid victory over Gunn in their previous meeting back in August of 2016, winning 38-28. One of the biggest obstacles trying to stand in the way of that victory was Gunn's Edmond Wu, who rushed for 63 yards and a touchdown on only eight carries, and also threw for 110 yards and two touchdowns. Now that he won't be playing on Thursday, will it be easier for El Camino to walk away with another win? There's only one way to find out.
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