The San Gorgonio Spartans will face off against the Cathedral City Lions at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. San Gorgonio will be looking to keep their six-game home win streak dating back to last season alive.
Last Friday, everything went San Gorgonio's way against Indio as San Gorgonio made off with a 42-18 victory.
Daron Tyson and Kaleb Taylor were among the main playmakers for San Gorgonio as the former gained 146 total yards and the latter picked up 21 receiving yards and a touchdown. The dominant performance also gave Tyson a new career-high in rushing yards.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, San Gorgonio was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 421 rushing yards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now rushed for at least 176 rushing yards in three consecutive contests.
One reason for the win was San Gorgonio's imposing defense, which managed to get into the backfield for five sacks. Anthony Rucker was especially locked on to Indio's QB and sacked him twice.
Meanwhile, Cathedral City strolled past Arroyo Valley with points to spare last Thursday, taking the game 40-24.
Cathedral City wouldn't let Arroyo Valley keep a hold of the ball as they managed to force three fumbles. It was truly a group effort as Angel Gonzalez, Robert Reyes, and Reyes picked up one apiece. Cathedral City got some further help from Yovanny Estrada: he made ten total tackles (4.0 for loss).
San Gorgonio's win bumped their record up to 3-0. As for Cathedral City, the victory got them back to even at 2-2.
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