The Lakewood Spartans will challenge the Cardinal Mooney Cougars at 7:00 p.m. on Friday.
Last Friday, Lakewood was within striking distance but couldn't close the gap as they fell 21-17 to St. Petersburg. The Spartans have now taken an 'L' in back-to-back games.
Meanwhile, Cardinal Mooney put another one in the bag on Friday to keep their perfect season alive. Everything went their way against Bishop Verot as Cardinal Mooney made off with a 49-28 victory. Fans of the Cougars have seen this all before: every one of the games they've played this season has ended in a blowout of 20+ points.
The match pitted two dominant signal callers against one another in Devin Mignery and Carter Smith. Mignery had a great game and rushed for 114 yards and two touchdowns. Meanwhile, Smith was balling out in the loss, rushing for 69 yards and two touchdowns, while also throwing for 118 yards on 11 of 20 attempts.
Cardinal Mooney's defense made their presence known, laying out Smith. four times. In that department, Macaiden Brown was the leader with two sacks. Another thorn in Bishop Verot's side was Jayden Burnett, who picked up a sack, made ten total tackles (2.0 for loss), and made ten total tackles (2.0 for loss).
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Cardinal Mooney was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 451 rushing yards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now rushed for at least 244 rushing yards in five consecutive contests.
Lakewood now has a losing record at 2-3. As for Cardinal Mooney, they pushed their record up to 5-0 with the win, which was their eighth straight at home dating back to last season.
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