The Maple Mountain Golden Eagles will challenge the Bountiful RedHawks at 5:00 p.m. on Friday. Maple Mountain is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 29.9 points per game this season.
Maple Mountain is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Friday. They came out on top in a nail-biter against Northridge , sneaking past 24-21. For those keeping track at home, that's the closest victory the Golden Eagles have posted since August 18, 2023.
The critical scores for Maple Mountain came from Eli Mauga, Max Stonebraker, and Mason Jensen.
One reason for the win was Maple Mountain's imposing defense, which managed to get into the backfield for three sacks. Uhila Wolfgramm was especially locked on to Northridge's QB and sacked him twice.
Meanwhile, Bountiful had already won six in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 25.3 points) and they went ahead and made it seven on Friday. They breezed by the Hawks to the tune of 42-14. The result was nothing new for the RedHawks, who have now won five matchups by 28 points or more so far this season.
Bountiful relied on the efforts of Emerson Geilman, who rushed for 135 yards and two touchdowns on only 12 carries, and Siaki Fekitoa, who rushed for 137 yards and three touchdowns while picking up 7.2 yards per carry. The dominant performance gave Geilman a new career-high in rushing yards.
Bountiful was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 301 rushing yards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now rushed for at least 181 rushing yards in seven consecutive matches.
Bountiful pushed their record up to 10-1 with the win, which was their seventh straight at home dating back to last season. Those good results were due in large part to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 36.3 points per game. As for Maple Mountain, their victory bumped their record up to 8-2.
Maple Mountain came up short against Bountiful when the teams last played back in October of 2019, falling 28-18. Can Maple Mountain avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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