The Brighton Bruins will square off against the Spencerport Rangers at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Brighton has six straight victories, Spencerport has four straight defeats), but none of that matters once you're on the field.
If Spencerport heads into halftime all tied up, they better play a good second half: that's when Brighton took over last week. Brighton came out on top against Irondequoit by a score of 14-6 on Thursday. The 14-point effort marked the Bruins' lowest-scoring matchup of the season, but in the end it didn't matter.
The critical scores for Brighton came from Grady Hopkin, Noah Wagner, and Gavin Parks.
Brighton's defense made their presence known, laying out Taiden Makubire. four times. The heavy lifting was done by Matthew Heininger and Kaleb Matthews, who racked up all four sacks between them. Heininger also set a new season high mark in total tackles with nine.
Brighton was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 240 rushing yards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now rushed for at least 209 rushing yards in five consecutive contests.
Meanwhile, Spencerport managed to keep up with Victor until halftime on Friday, but things quickly went downhill from there. Spencerport came up short against Victor, falling 35-14. While the Rangers didn't get the win, they did start the game off strong, beating the Blue Devils 7-0 in the first quarter.
Brighton pushed their record up to 6-0 with the win, which was their eighth straight on the road dating back to last season. As for Spencerport, their loss dropped their record down to 1-5.
Everything went Brighton's way against Spencerport in their previous matchup back in October of 2022, as Brighton made off with a 34-12 victory. Does Brighton have another victory up their sleeve, or will Spencerport turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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