Two dominant backs in Nathan Gonzales and Jose Cortes are getting ready to go toe-to-toe. A feisty cat fight will be fought when the Mira Monte Lions take on the Lindsay Cardinals at 7:00 p.m. on Friday... Mira Monte is coming into the matchup hot, having won their last three games.
Mira Monte is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Friday. They had just enough and edged Minarets out 24-22.
Gonzales was his usual excellent self, rushing for 334 yards and two touchdowns while picking up 8.0 yards per carry. The dominant performance gave him a new career-high in rushing yards.
Mira Monte was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 389 rushing yards. That's the most rushing yards they've managed all season.
Meanwhile, Lindsay posted their biggest victory since September 13th on Friday. They claimed a resounding 42-2 win over Corcoran. The Cardinals pushed the score to 42-0 by the end of the third, a deficit the Panthers cut but never quite recovered from.
Mira Monte has been performing well recently as they've won four of their last five matches, which provided a massive bump to their 7-6 record this season. Those good results were due in large part to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 33.8 points per game. As for Lindsay, the victory was the third in a row for them, bringing their record for this year to 8-5.
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