Riverside hasn't had much luck against Hillcrest recently, but that could start to change on Friday. The Warriors will face off against the Rams at 7:30 p.m. That game will pit two of the most dominant signal callers against one another: Gideon Merhib and Jackson Free.
On Friday, Riverside and Spartanburg were almost perfectly matched up, but Riverside suffered a 20-19 loss. The Warriors gained 160 more yards on the day, but it was the Vikings that made the best use of them.
Riverside might have lost, but man, Keyon Knowles was a machine: he rushed for 123 yards on only 14 carries. Peyton Stevenson also helped out with an impressive 118 receiving yards.
Meanwhile, Hillcrest had already won three in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 32.3 points) and they went ahead and made it four on Friday. They claimed a resounding 44-8 victory over the Wildcats. The matchup was all but wrapped up at the end of the third, by which point the Rams had established a 28-point advantage.
Hillcrest's win bumped their record up to 7-3. As for Riverside, their defeat dropped their record down to 4-6.
Riverside was taken down by Hillcrest 56-24 when the teams last played back in November of 2021. Can the Warriors avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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