The McAllen Memorial Mustangs will head out to challenge the Vela Sabercats at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday. Both teams are coming into the match red-hot, with McAllen Memorial sitting on four straight victories and Vela on seven.
McAllen Memorial will head into Thursday's matchup hoping to keep the good times rolling: they only won by three when they last took the field, which might have inspired the 38-point they dealt Juarez-Lincoln on Thursday. McAllen Memorial claimed a resounding 45-7 win over Juarez-Lincoln at home. Given the Mustangs' advantage in MaxPreps' Texas football rankings (they are ranked 475th, while the Huskies are ranked 1121st), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
This one was won in the trenches and the lion's share of the credit has to go to Braxton Speights and he. Speights rushed for 120 yards and a touchdown on only 11 carries while he rushed for 120 yards and a touchdown on only 11 carries. The team also got some help courtesy of Kane Coy, who rushed for six yards and a touchdown.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, McAllen Memorial was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 428 rushing yards. That's the most rushing yards they've managed all season.
Meanwhile, everything came up roses for Vela on the road against Rowe on Friday as the squad secured a 40-13 victory. The Sabercats pushed the score to 34-13 by the end of the third, a deficit the Warriors had little chance of recovering from.
Geoffrey Creighton Lefevre was his usual excellent self, throwing for 393 yards and four touchdowns while picking up 11.9 yards per attempt, and also punching in two rushing scores. He has been hot recently, having posted three or more passing touchdowns the last three times he's played. Vela also got a significant boost from Jonathan Flores, who ran away from the competition to the tune of 135 yards.
McAllen Memorial's record now sits at 6-1. As for Vela, their win was their tenth straight on the road dating back to last season, which pushed their record up to 7-0.
Thursday's contest might be decided in the on the ground. McAllen Memorial has been unstoppable on the ground this season, having averaged 286.7 rushing yards per game. However, it's not like Vela struggles in that department as they've been averaging 179.4. It's looking like Thursday's game might have some serious battles in the trenches.
McAllen Memorial came up short against Vela in their previous matchup back in September of 2023, falling 31-27. Can McAllen Memorial avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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