The Northern Garrett Huskies will square off against the Mountain Ridge Miners at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Both are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.
Northern Garrett is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Friday. They blew past Southern 42-0. The Huskies might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won four matchups by 42 points or more this season.
Luke Ross was his usual excellent self, rushing for 89 yards and a touchdown on only ten carries. The team also got some help courtesy of Austin Ross, who picked up 93 receiving yards and a touchdown.
Northern Garrett was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 250 rushing yards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now rushed for at least 191 rushing yards in six consecutive matches.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Mountain Ridge). They blew past Keyser, posting a 56-3 win. With that victory, the Miners brought their scoring average up to 27.8 points per game.
Kyree Griffin and Carter Clites were among the main playmakers for Mountain Ridge as the former rushed for 152 yards and three touchdowns on only 11 carries and the latter rushed for 92 yards and three touchdowns on only ten carries. That's the most rushing yards Griffin has posted since back in September.
Mountain Ridge now has a winning record of 5-4. As for Northern Garrett, the win got them back to even at 5-5.
Northern Garrett and Mountain Ridge were almost perfectly matched up in their previous meeting back in October, but Northern Garrett suffered an agonizing 21-20 defeat. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Griffin, who rushed for 78 yards and a touchdown on only nine carries, and also caught a touchdown. Now that Northern Garrett knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? There's only one way to find out.
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