Crescent Valley @ North Eugene OSAA 5A Football 8-30-2024
This past Friday, the Crescent Valley Raiders traveled down to Eugene, OR to face the North Eugene Highlanders in an OSAA 5A football game. Not many things better than Friday Night Lights for me. It was just a bit HOT!
The Raiders came away with the 44-23 win.
The Highlanders came in led by quarterbacks by Brody Gilliam, (Sophomore, #3) and Kaeden Emerson, (Junior, #7) while the Raiders are led at quarterback by Zeke Thomas, (Freshman, #1, seen below).
North Eugene jumped out to a quick lead after a safety and touchdown on special teams and to me, the Raiders looked like they were in for a long night.
From that point on, the Raiders took over the game. Thomas seemed to settle in and showed he is ready for this level and the Raiders defense started flexing some muscles led by safeties Truman Brasfield, (Senior, #3) and Mason Riney, (Senior, #7).
The Highlanders did have some success moving the ball as running backs Juan Mercado(Junior, #22) and Dae-Dae Ireland, (Sophomore, #11) ripped of some good runs and both quarterbacks hit some passes down the field, but they just couldn't push the ball into the end zone.
Crescent Valley was able to keep the North Eugene offense out of the end zone until very late in the game as the Raiders had the game well in hand.
The Raiders have started off the season on a great note. They had solid play on each level on both sides of the ball. This week the Raiders will travel to Redmond, OR to take on Ridgeview and the Highlanders will travel across town to take on Willamette.
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