The King/Drew Golden Eagles will take on the Palisades Dolphins at 6:00 p.m. on Saturday. Both teams are coming into the game red-hot, with King/Drew sitting on four straight wins and Palisades on five.
King/Drew is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Friday. They came out on top against Kennedy by a score of 35-23. 35 seems to be a good number for the Golden Eagles as the squad scooped up a victory with the same number of points in their previous game.
It was another big night for Keenan Jackson, who threw for 184 yards and three touchdowns while completing 85.7% of his passes, and also rushed for 87 yards and a touchdown on only nine carries. That's the most rushing yards he has posted since back in November of 2023.
King/Drew was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 245 rushing yards. That's a new trend for them: they were averaging 96.2 rushing yards per game earlier this season, but in their last five matchups they've averaged 238.8.
King/Drew's defense made their presence known, laying out Diego Montes. four times. Chinedu Onyeagoro was especially locked on to Kennedy's QB and sacked him twice. Onyeagoro has been hot , having also posted five or more total tackles the last eight times he's played. Another thorn in Kennedy's side was Anthony Torrence, who picked up a sack, made eight total tackles, and defended a pass.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Palisades). They strolled past Eagle Rock with points to spare on Friday, taking the game 63-45. The Dolphins pushed the score to 56-31 by the end of the third, a deficit the Eagles cut but never quite recovered from.
Palisades can attribute much of their success to Harrison Carter, who gained 329 total yards and three touchdowns, and Jack Thomas, who threw for 263 yards and four touchdowns while picking up 12.5 yards per attempt. Carter really tore up the turf during one magnificent 82-yard run.
King/Drew has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won seven of their last eight matches, which provided a nice bump to their 9-4 record this season. They've dominated over that stretch too, winning by an average of 37.1 points. As for Palisades, their win was their sixth straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 11-2.
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