After each having a week off, the King Mustangs and the Carroll Tigers will dust off their jerseys to challenge one another at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday. Expect the scorekeeper to be kept busy: if their previous games are any indication, the two teams will really light up the scoreboard.
King is headed in fresh off scoring the most points they have all season. They strolled past Robstown with points to spare last Friday, taking the game 48-30.
Meanwhile, everything went Carroll's way against Tuloso-Midway last Friday as Carroll made off with a 37-14 win. With that victory, the Tigers brought their scoring average up to 27.4 points per game.
The match pitted two dominant backs against one another in Robert Muhammad and Damian Figueroa. Muhammad had a great game and rushed for 120 yards and three touchdowns. Meanwhile, Figueroa did his best for the losing side, rushing for 94 yards on only 12 carries.
King's win ended a seven-game drought on the road dating back to last season and puts them at 2-3. As for Carroll, the victory made it two in a row for them and also bumps their season record up to 2-3.
King was dealt a bruising 47-6 loss at the hands of Carroll when the teams last played back in September of 2023. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Carroll's Jesse Garcia, who rushed for 99 yards and a touchdown on only ten carries, and also picked up 41 receiving yards and a touchdown. Now that King knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? Check MaxPreps.com after the match to find out.
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