After each having a week off, the Tavares Bulldogs and the Lake Minneola Hawks will shake off the cobwebs and hit the field one another at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Tavares has given up an average of 30.2 points per game this season, so hopefully the team got some defensive drills in this week.
Tavares' offense might be in the hot seat on Tuesday considering what happened against Belleview last Wednesday. They were beaten by the Rattlers 46-0. While losing is never fun, the Bulldogs can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Florida football rankings (they are ranked 238th, while the Rattlers are ranked 22nd).
Meanwhile, Lake Minneola put their dominant defense on display in the team's fifth consecutive shutout last Tuesday. They never let East Ridge get on the board and left with a 12-0 win. The 12-point effort marked the Hawks' lowest-scoring match of the season, but in the end it didn't matter.
The critical scores for Lake Minneola came from Kumari Wright and Bailey Fowler.
Lake Minneola didn't go easy on the quarterback and picked off five passes before the game was over. Isabella Mathews led the group effort, picking up two of those interceptions all by herself. Adeejah Clarke has been hot recently, having also posted at least one defended passe the last four times she's played.
Lake Minneola's victory bumped their record up to 5-0. As for Tavares, this is the second loss in a row for them and nudges their season record down to 1-4.
Tavares was dealt a bruising 32-0 loss at the hands of Lake Minneola when the teams last played back in February. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Wright, who rushed for 55 yards and two touchdowns on only five carries, and also threw for 40 yards and two touchdowns. Now that Tavares knows the damage she can cause, will they be able to stop her this time? There's only one way to find out.
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