The Holtville Vikings will challenge the Escondido Cougars at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Escondido took a loss in their last contest and will be looking to turn the tables on Holtville, who comes in off a win.
Holtville is headed in fresh off scoring the most points they have all season. They really took it to Cibola for the full four quarters, racking up a 60-0 win. The victory was all the more spectacular given the Vikings' disadvantage in MaxPreps' football rankings in their respective home states (they are ranked 343rd in California, while the Raiders are ranked 168th in Arizona).
Enrique Armas
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Enrique Armas had another great game (as he tends to do), rushing for 222 yards and five TDs on only nine carries. Those five rushing touchdowns gave him a new career-high.
Armas was just one part of a punishing run game: Holtville was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 278 rushing yards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now rushed for at least 176 rushing yards every time they've taken the field this season.
Meanwhile, it's never fun to lose, and it's even less fun to lose 34-7, which was the final score in Escondido's tilt against Torrey Pines on Friday. The Cougars haven't had much luck with the Falcons recently, as the team has come up short the last three times they've met.
Escondido's loss dropped their record down to 2-2. As for Holtville, their win bumped their record up to 3-1.
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