The Battle Mountain Longhorns will stay at home for another week and welcome the Incline Highlanders at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Both are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.
Battle Mountain will roll into the matchup after a wild two-game stretch: they only put up six points two weeks ago, then bounced right back against North Tahoe on Thursday. Battle Mountain simply couldn't be stopped as they easily beat North Tahoe 42-7 at home. The Longhorns might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won three matches by 35 points or more this season.
Meanwhile, Incline put another one in the bag on Friday to keep their perfect season alive. They took their contest at home with ease, bagging a 61-0 victory over West Wendover.
Multiple players turned in solid performances to lead Incline to victory, but perhaps none more so than Tommy Williams, who rushed for 27 yards and two touchdowns, and also threw for 96 yards and a touchdown on only nine passes. Aidan Midgley was another key back, rushing for 101 yards and a touchdown on only six carries.
Incline wouldn't let West Wendover keep a hold of the ball as they managed to force two fumbles. Incline can thank Chris Ibarra and Trent Racich for forcing both of them.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Incline was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 274 rushing yards. That's the most rushing yards they've posted was before the start of last season.
Battle Mountain now has a winning record of 3-2. As for Incline, their win bumped their record up to 3-0.
Battle Mountain came up short against Incline when the teams last played back in November of 2023, falling 21-16. Can Battle Mountain avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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