After three games on the road, Basic is heading back home. They will host the Coronado Cougars at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday. Both might be coming in a bit winded given these two teams combined for 848 yards in their previous games.
Basic is headed in fresh off scoring the most points they have all season. They received a blow on Friday as they fell 50-31 to Desert Pines.
Jayveon Rose put forth a good effort for the losing side as he threw for 368 yards and three touchdowns while picking up 11.5 yards per attempt. Louden Cahill was Rose's top target, picking up 95 receiving yards and a touchdown.
Meanwhile, Coronado faced Arbor View in a battle between two of the state's top teams on Friday. Coronado took a 28-21 hit to the loss column at the hands of Arbor View. The defeat continues a trend for the Cougars in their matchups with the Aggies: they've now lost three in a row.
The match pitted two dominant signal callers against one another in Aiden Krause and Thaddeus Thatcher. Thatcher had a great game and threw for 361 yards and two touchdowns while picking up 10.9 yards per attempt. Meanwhile, Krause was balling out in the loss, throwing for 386 yards and three touchdowns.
Basic's loss was their fourth straight on the road, which dropped their record down to 1-5. As for Coronado, their defeat dropped their record down to 3-2.
Basic was dealt a bruising 48-13 loss at the hands of Coronado in their previous matchup back in November of 2022. That matchup was all but decided by halftime, at which point Basic was down 35-13.
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