The Pine Creek Eagles will take on the Legend Titans at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday. Hopefully Pine Creek focused on turnovers this week as the team gave up four on Friday.
Pine Creek is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Colorado's top teams: Cherry Creek, who was ranked first in their home state at the time (Pine Creek was ranked fifth). Pine Creek took a 21-14 hit to the loss column at the hands of Cherry Creek. The Eagles' defeat signaled the end of their three-game winning streak.
Although Pine Creek took the loss, they still got scores from Connor Stallman and Caleb Petree.
Even if they lost, Pine Creek's defense still kept up the pressure with four sacks. Leading the way was Jared Ibarra with two.
Meanwhile, Legend owes their defense a big pat on the back after their performance on Friday. They claimed a resounding 30-0 victory over Castle View at home. The Titans might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won three contests by 30 points or more this season.
Legend got their win on the backs of several key players, but it was Ryken Banks out in front who rushed for 180 yards on only 13 carries. Those 180 rushing yards gave Banks a new career-high. The team also got some help courtesy of Nicholas Farley, who rushed for 48 yards and three touchdowns.
He was just one part of a punishing run game: Legend was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 330 rushing yards. That's the most rushing yards they've managed all season.
Pine Creek's loss dropped their record down to 3-2. As for Legend, the victory made it two in a row for them and bumps their season record up to 4-1.
Pine Creek came up short against Legend in their previous matchup back in October of 2023, falling 28-16. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Legend's Jaden Lawrence, who rushed for 190 yards and a touchdown while picking up 7.3 yards per carry. Now that Pine Creek knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? Check MaxPreps.com after the match to find out.
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