The Monroe Red Jackets will face off against the Brighton Bruins at 6:00 p.m. on Saturday. Each of these teams will be fighting to keep a win streak alive as Monroe comes in on four and Brighton on nine.
Monroe is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup last Friday. They put the hurt on Irondequoit with a sharp 34-14 victory. The Red Jackets might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won seven matches by 20 points or more this season.
Tajmir Mullins continued his habit of posting crazy stat lines, rushing for 259 yards and four touchdowns while picking up 10.4 yards per carry. Monroe is undefeated when Mullins posts two or more rushing touchdowns, but 1-2 otherwise. Pooty Cunningham also helped out by tossing the rock for 258 yards.
Monroe was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 321 rushing yards. The team's really been improving in that area: they've now improved their rushing yard total in three consecutive contests.
One reason for the win was Monroe's imposing defense, which managed to get into the backfield for six sacks. In that department, Anthony Omebe was the leader with 3.5.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Brighton). They really took it to Greece Athena for the full four quarters, racking up a 43-0 win. The Bruins pushed the score to 35-0 by the end of the third, a deficit the Trojans had no chance of recovering from.
Brighton's success was spearheaded by the efforts of Grady Hopkin, who rushed for 24 yards and a touchdown, and Jayden Lian, who rushed for 75 yards and a touchdown on only ten carries. Those 75 rushing yards gave Lian a new career-high.
Brighton pushed their record up to 9-0 with the victory, which was their sixth straight at home dating back to last season. They've dominated over that stretch too, winning by an average of 23.7 points. As for Monroe, their record now sits at 7-2.
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