The South Lake Cavaliers will square off against the Michigan Collegiate Cougars at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. South Lake is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 26.9 points per game this season.
If South Lake beats Michigan Collegiate with 14 points on Friday, it's going to be the team's new lucky number: they've won their past two contests with that exact score. South Lake snuck past Madison with a 14-8 win on Friday. The victory made it back-to-back wins for the Cavaliers.
Rafeal Payne went supernova for South Lake, rushing for 75 yards and a touchdown on only nine carries. That's the most rushing yards Payne has posted since back in October of 2023.
On the other side of the ball, a lot of the credit has to go to South Lake's defense and their seven sacks. Cortez Croff was especially locked on to Madison's QB and sacked him three times. Another thorn in Madison's side was Randy Howard Jr, who picked up a sack and made three total tackles in addition to snagging an interception which he returned one-yard for a touchdown.
Meanwhile, Michigan Collegiate had already won six in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 31.8 points) and they went ahead and made it seven on Friday. They took their game on the road with ease, bagging a 56-24 victory over the Eagles. Considering the Cougars have won five matches by more than 31 points this season, Friday's blowout was nothing new.
South Lake's win bumped their record up to 5-3. As for Michigan Collegiate, they pushed their record up to 7-1 with the victory, which was their fourth straight on the road.
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