The Rio Mesa Spartans will venture away from home to challenge the Calabasas Coyotes at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Rio Mesa will be hoping to continue their four-game streak of scoring more points each matchup than the last.
On Friday, Rio Mesa needed a bit of extra time to put away Thousand Oaks. They managed a 54-48 win over the Lancers. The Spartans' offense stepped up their game for this one, as that was the most points they've scored all season.
The match pitted two dominant signal callers against one another in JJ Bittner and Jackson Taylor. Bittner had a great game and threw for 267 yards and two touchdowns. Meanwhile, Taylor was balling out in the loss, throwing for 356 yards and six touchdowns while completing 73% of his passes, and also punching in a touchdown on the ground.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Rio Mesa was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 282 rushing yards. They easily outclassed their opponents in that department as Thousand Oaks only rushed for 91.
Meanwhile, Calabasas was not able to break out of their rough patch on Friday as the team picked up their third straight loss. They took a 28-21 hit to the loss column at the hands of Santa Barbara. While losing is never fun, the Coyotes can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' California football rankings (they are ranked 209th, while the Dons are ranked 104th).
Rio Mesa pushed their record up to 6-2 with the victory, which was their third straight on the road. As for Calabasas, their defeat dropped their record down to 4-4.
Rio Mesa was taken down by Calabasas 56-17 in their previous meeting back in November of 2015. Thankfully for Rio Mesa, Tristan Gebbia (who threw for 321 yards and four touchdowns) won't be suiting up this time. Will that be enough to change the final result? Check MaxPreps.com after the match to find out.
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