River Road has enjoyed the comforts of home their last two games, but now they'll head out on the road. They will face off against The Bushland Falcons at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. River Road will have to bring their A-game into this one, as they are staring down a pretty big deficit in the MaxPreps Texas Rankings (they are ranked 969th, while Bushland is ranked 92nd).
Last Friday, River Road was beaten by Dalhart 42-8. River Road was in a tough position after the first half, with the score already sitting at 28-0.
Even if they lost, River Road's defensive line still kept up the pressure with five sacks. The heavy lifting was done by Elijah Urias and Samuel Delgado who racked up four sacks between them.
Meanwhile, Bushland had already won four in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 27.5 points), and they went ahead and made it five on Friday. They simply couldn't be stopped as they easily beat Muleshoe 56-26 on the road. Bushland pushed the score to 56-18 by the end of the third, a deficit Muleshoe cut but never quite recovered from.
The opposite results left the teams with opposite records: Bushland's victory pushed their record up to 6-1, while River Road's loss dropped theirs down to 1-6.
River Road was dealt a bruising 68-0 loss at the hands of Bushland in their previous matchup back in October of 2022. Can River Road avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
