The Mercedes Tigers are packing up and heading out on the road for their first away game this season. they face off against the Rowe Warriors at 7:30 p.m. on Friday. Mercedes will be strutting in after a victory while Rowe will be coming in after a defeat.
Last Friday, everything went Mercedes' way against Donna as Mercedes made off with a 38-17 win. The score at the end of the third wound up being the final score as the Tigers just coasted through the last quarter.
Robert Sanchez was nothing short of spectacular: he rushed for 114 yards and two touchdowns on only seven carries. He got the majority of those rushing yards when he took off on a run and that went for an incredible 71 yards. Mercedes also got help from Baltazar Fuentes, who showed off his sure hands for 104 receiving yards.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Mercedes was moving up and down the field and finished the game with 428 total yards. They easily outclassed their opponents in that department as Donna only gained 156.
Meanwhile, it's never fun to lose, and it's even less fun to lose 49-14, which was the final score in Rowe's tilt against Los Fresnos on Friday.
The victory got Mercedes back to even at 1-1. As for Rowe, their loss dropped their record down to 0-2.
Mercedes couldn't quite finish off Rowe in their previous meeting back in September of 2019 and fell 28-25. Can Mercedes avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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