The Bridge City Cardinals will venture away from home to challenge the Pine Tree Pirates at 7:30 p.m. on Friday. Bridge City is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 32.9 points per game this season.
Bridge City will head out to face Pine Tree after giving up their first home loss of the season on Friday. Bridge City fell 26-18 to Hargrave. The loss continues a trend for the Cardinals in their matchups with the Falcons: they've now lost five in a row.
Even though the team lost, they still had their share of impressive performances. One of the best came from Abraham Munguia, who picked up 109 receiving yards and a touchdown. He is becoming a predictor of Bridge City's success: when he posts at least 100 receiving yards the team is undefeated (and 1-2 when he doesn't). Bridge City also got a significant boost from Ashton Sumrall, who ran away from the competition to the tune of 133 yards.
Bridge City wouldn't let Hargrave keep a hold of the ball as they managed to force three fumbles. Bridge City can thank Keagan Trahan and Jagger Carlin for forcing all of them. Trahan is also crushing it when it comes to total tackles: he's made at least five every time he's taken the field this season.
Meanwhile, Pine Tree came tearing into Friday's match with four straight wins (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 13.5 points) and they left with even more momentum. They took their contest with ease, bagging a 35-7 win over the Wildcats. The Pirates pushed the score to 21-0 by the end of the third, a deficit the Wildcats had little chance of recovering from.
Pine Tree's victory was their fifth straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 9-1. Those victories were due in large part to their defensive effort, having only surrendered 9.8 points per game. As for Bridge City, their defeat ended a four-game streak of wins at home and dropped them to 8-2.
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