Mentor and St. Ignatius are an even 5-5 against one another since September of 2017, but not for long. A feisty cat fight will be fought when Cardinals challenges the St. Ignatius Wildcats at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Mentor has ten straight victories, St. Ignatius has seven straight defeats), but none of that matters once you're on the field.
Mentor is headed in fresh off scoring the most points they have all season. They blew past Euclid, posting a 51-14 win. The Cardinals might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won eight matchups by 23 points or more this season.
Mentor's success was spearheaded by the efforts of Jackson Farley, who rushed for 80 yards and three touchdowns, and Marcus Sierputowski, who gained 134 total yards and two touchdowns. Farley has been hot recently, having posted two or more rushing touchdowns the last four times he's played. Grant Cerny was another key pass catcher, picking up 52 receiving yards and a touchdown.
Meanwhile, St. Ignatius and Clarkson N were almost perfectly matched up on Friday, but St. Ignatius suffered a 27-26 loss.
Mentor pushed their record up to 10-0 with the victory, which was their seventh straight on the road dating back to last season. As for St. Ignatius, their defeat dropped their record down to 1-9.
Mentor didn't have too much breathing room in their match against St. Ignatius in their previous meeting back in August, but they still walked away with a 20-14 win. Does Mentor have another victory up their sleeve, or will St. Ignatius turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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