After each having a week off, the Trumbull Eagles and the McMahon Senators will dust off their jerseys to challenge one another at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Expect the scorekeeper to be kept busy: if their previous games are any indication, the two teams will really light up the scoreboard.
Trumbull is headed in fresh off scoring the most points they have all season. They walked away with a 41-28 victory over Ridgefield last Saturday.
Trumbull relied on the efforts of Will Carley, who rushed for 81 yards and two touchdowns on only nine carries, and Jaden Tuhaise, who rushed for 90 yards and a touchdown on only ten carries. The dominant performance gave Carley a new career-high in rushing yards.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Trumbull was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 279 rushing yards. The team's really been improving in that area: they've now improved they're rushing yard total in three consecutive matchups.
Trumbull wouldn't let Ridgefield keep a hold of the ball as they managed to force two fumbles. Trumbull can thank Carley and Brayden Jagoe for forcing both of them.
Meanwhile, McMahon never let their opponents score last Saturday. They simply couldn't be stopped as they easily beat Bridgeport Central 48-0 on the road. With that win, the Senators brought their scoring average up to 30.5 points per game.
Lorenzo Laracca was a one-man wrecking crew for McMahon as he threw for 160 yards and four touchdowns on only nine passes.
McMahon didn't go easy on the quarterback and picked off two passes before the game was over. The picks came courtesy of Jacob Virgulak and Isiaha Mcrae Jr.
The victory got Trumbull back to even at 2-2. As for McMahon, the win also got them back to even at 2-2.
Everything went Trumbull's way against McMahon in their previous meeting back in October of 2016, as Trumbull made off with a 34-9 victory. Does Trumbull have another victory up their sleeve, or will McMahon turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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