The Rio Mesa Spartans are taking a road trip to challenge the Newbury Park Panthers at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Rio Mesa is coming into the contest on a four-game losing streak.
On Friday, Rio Mesa had to suffer through a 42-14 loss at the hands of Calabasas. While losing is never fun, the Spartans can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' California football rankings (they are ranked 527th, while the Coyotes are ranked 234th).
Although Rio Mesa took the loss, they still got scores from Aidan Nunes and Juan Munoz.
Meanwhile, there was early excitement for Newbury Park after they claimed the first score on Friday, but it was Thousand Oaks who ended up claiming the real prize. The Panthers took a 17-7 hit to the loss column at the hands of the Lancers. The game marked the Panthers' lowest-scoring matchup so far this season.
Newbury Park didn't go easy on the quarterback and picked off two passes before the game was over. The picks came courtesy of Landon Stuart and Vincent Carner.
Newbury Park now has a losing record of 4-5. As for Rio Mesa, their loss dropped their record down to 1-8.
Rio Mesa was taken down by Newbury Park 41-2 in their previous matchup back in November of 2024. That contest was all but decided by halftime, at which point the Spartans were down 31-0.
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