The Bear Creek Bears will head out on the road to square off against the Golden Demons at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday. Bear Creek comes in still looking for their first win of the season.
Bear Creek is headed in fresh off scoring the most points they have all season. They came up short against Pomona on Saturday, falling 46-21. While losing is never fun, the Bears can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Colorado flag football rankings (they are ranked 68th, while the Panthers are ranked 13th).
Meanwhile, Golden's contest on Saturday was close up to the half, but then they kicked things up a notch. They blew past Lakewood 27-7. Considering the Demons have won five games by more than 19 points this season, Saturday's blowout was nothing new.
The critical scores for Golden came from Brook Grigel, Ashlyn Bates, Aly Kent, and Kenley Johnson.
Golden didn't go easy on the quarterback and picked off six passes before the game was over. Bates led the group effort, picking up three of those interceptions all by herself. Payton Redmond has been hot recently, having also posted at least one defended passe the last three times she's played. Grigel got in on the action too, converting a pick into a touchdown.
Golden is on a roll lately: they've won six of their last seven matchups. That's provided a massive bump to their 7-5 record this season. Those wins came thanks in part to their defensive effort, having only surrendered 6.1 points on average over those games. As for Bear Creek, their defeat dropped their record down to 0-7.
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