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The final week of the regular season has arrived for the Joseph City Wildcats. Tonight they host their rival and nemesis Mogollon with the winner cementing their spot in the 12 team 1A state playoffs, which being next week.
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The Wildcats come into the game with a 4-3 record, while the Mustangs arrive with a 5-3 mark. Both teams have collected wins over Valley Union, Mayer and El Capitan, although the Mustangs’ wins are a little more impressive over those teams but not much.
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Mogollon has dominated the last two meetings winning by a combined score of 142-37. The last time Joseph City won this game was in the 2016 season when they defeated the Mustangs twice, one in the regular season and once in the state playoffs.
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With the game being played in Joseph City the Wildcats will have an edge. Will this be the year they return to the win column over their rival?
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Teams in the 3A conference still have two or three weeks left in their regular seasons. Holbrook has the tough assignment of traveling to Snowflake on Friday night, where they will meet up with a Lobo team fresh off their 33-34 upset overtime loss to Payson. Snowflake had a big lead in that game, but gave up points to the Longhorns late in the game in the loss, which left them with a 5-2 record and will have dropped them from the fourth overall ranking, which they had prior to the Payson loss.
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Holbrook continues to struggle on both sides of the ball and will not provide much in the way of resistance for the Lobos to return to the win column. Holbrook and Snowflake did not play last season, with that being one of the games the Roadrunners failed to field a team. This year the Roadrunners will indeed take a team to Lobo Stadium, however, the outcome will not be kind to Roadrunner fans. Two years ago Snowflake won this match up 55-7. If Holbrook can score at least once, that would be a moral victory for a team trying to rebuild a program. The Lobos rushing duo of Terren Green and Brig Turley are expected to have big nights.
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