By James Yodice / Journal Staff Writer
CLASS 4A: Three metro-area teams — Albuquerque Academy, Moriarty and Bernalillo — are on the road, while No. 2 St. Pius (8-1) is home Friday night at Nusenda Community Stadium to No. 7 seed Grants (7-4) at 7 p.m.
No. 5 seed Academy heads to Taos on Friday night as the Chargers (7-4) look to snap the five-game winning streak by the Tigers (6-4). That five-game streak includes wins over top-eight seeds Bernalillo, Moriarty and Grants.
“We gotta be able to run the ball,” Chargers coach David Lee said. “And we’ve been proven to do that in the last four or five games.”
And while QB William Braun has one of the best collection of receivers in 4A (led by Logan Hague and Gage Conway), it is Academy’s ground game, Lee said, that is key.