On Friday, Los Lunas faced West Mesa in a battle between two of the state's top teams. The Los Lunas Tigers simply couldn't be stopped as they easily beat the West Mesa Mustangs 54-21 at home. The game marked the Tigers' most dominant win of the season so far.
The critical scores for Los Lunas came from Jordan Howard, Kaiden Reese, Anthony Castillo, Jagger Casillas, J'Den Howard, Martin Cordova, and Luke Cieremans.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Los Lunas was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 303 rushing yards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now rushed for at least 211 rushing yards in three consecutive contests.
One reason for the win was Los Lunas' imposing defense, which managed to get into the backfield for five sacks. Leading the way was Bryant Baca with two.
When it comes to explaining why West Mesa lost, don't look at Logan Jacabson. Despite the final result, he rushed for 128 yards and two touchdowns on only seven carries. The dominant performance gave Jacabson a new career-high in rushing yards.
Los Lunas' victory was their seventh straight at home dating back to last season, which pushed their record up to 3-1. As for West Mesa, this is the second loss in a row for them and nudges their season record down to 2-2.
Los Lunas will have some time to savor their win since their next game is a little ways off: they'll take on Albuquerque at 7:00 p.m. on October 4th. Albuquerque will roll in looking for their fifth straight victory, something Los Lunas surely won't give up without a fight. As for West Mesa, they didn't take long to hit the field again: they've already played their next match, a 48-14 loss against La Cueva on the 27th.
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