The Mead Mavericks will welcome the Lewis-Palmer Rangers at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Mead is coming into the game hot, having won their last three games.
Mead will head into Friday's contest hoping to keep the good times rolling: they only won by two when they last took the field, which might have inspired the 36-point they dealt Greeley West on Friday. Mead claimed a resounding 42-6 win over Greeley West on the road.
Mead got their victory on the backs of several key players, but it was Christian Hiner out in front who rushed for 74 yards and a touchdown, and also threw for 78 yards and a touchdown on only six passes. The dominant performance gave Hiner a new career-high in rushing yards. Ryan St. Aubin was another key rusher, rushing for 106 yards and a touchdown on only eight carries.
He was just one part of a punishing run game: Mead was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 373 rushing yards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now rushed for at least 169 rushing yards in three consecutive matchups.
Meanwhile, it's never fun to lose, and it's even less fun to lose 56-21, which was the final score in Lewis-Palmer's tilt against Holy Family on Friday. The Rangers haven't had much luck with the Tigers recently, as the team's come up short the last two times they've met.
Lewis-Palmer might have lost, but man, Mekhi Mayes was a machine: he rushed for 190 yards and a touchdown while picking up 9.5 yards per carry. Mayes' longest rush was for an incredible 80 yards.
Mead's win bumped their record up to 3-0. As for Lewis-Palmer, their loss dropped their record down to 1-3.
Everything came up roses for Mead against Lewis-Palmer when the teams last played back in September of 2021, as the team secured a 42-8 victory. In that match, Mead amassed a halftime lead of 42-0, an impressive feat they'll look to repeat on Friday.
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