The El Dorado Golden Hawks will challenge the Huntington Beach Oilers at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Both teams took a loss in their last game, so they'll have plenty of motivation to get the 'W'.
El Dorado is coming in off a wild two-game stretch: after soaring to 35 points last Friday, they were much more limited against Foothill on Friday. They took a 31-13 bruising from the Knights.
El Dorado didn't go easy on the quarterback and picked off two passes before the game was over. The picks came courtesy of Justin Karg and Dante Selway.
Meanwhile, after a string of six wins, Huntington Beach's good fortune finally ran out on Friday. They fell just short of Crean Lutheran by a score of 31-28. The Oilers were up 14-0 in the first quarter but couldn't hold on to the lead.
The match pitted two dominant signal callers against one another in Brady Edmunds and Caden Jones. Jones had a great game and threw for 207 yards and one TD while completing 82.9% of his passes. Meanwhile, Edmunds was balling out in the loss, throwing for 281 yards and three touchdowns, while also punching in one score on the ground.
Huntington Beach's defeat was their first in the league, dropping their league record down to 3-1 and their overall record down to 7-2. As for El Dorado, they now have a losing record of 4-5.
El Dorado might still be hurting after the 49-28 loss they got from Huntington Beach when the teams last played back in October of 2024. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Edmunds, who threw for 332 yards and four TDs while picking up 13.3 yards per attempt, and also rushed for 40 yards and one score. Now that the Golden Hawks know the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? Check MaxPreps.com after the match to find out.
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