The St. Mary Gaels have the luxury of staying home for another week and will welcome the Immaculata Spartans on Saturday. Both squads will be entering this one on the heels of a big victory.
St. Mary's offense will try to repeat the strong performance it gave on Friday, when they got past Becton's usually-dominant defense. St. Mary put the hurt on Becton with a sharp 42-22 win.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Immaculata). They blew past West Side 56-20 on Friday. Given the Spartans' advantage in MaxPreps' New Jersey football rankings (they are ranked 68th, while the Roughriders are ranked 274th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
It was another big night for Cole Hayden, who rushed for 66 yards and two touchdowns on only nine carries, and also threw for 55 yards and a touchdown. He is on a roll when it comes to rushing touchdowns, as he's now punched in two or more in the last three games he's played. Another player making a difference was Luke Laub, who rushed for 38 yards and two touchdowns.
Immaculata was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 334 rushing yards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now rushed for at least 265 rushing yards in seven consecutive games.
St. Mary's victory bumped their record up to 7-2. As for Immaculata, their win bumped their record up to 7-1.
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