No. 1 Pusch Ridge would go on the defeat No. 4 Benjamin Franklin 47-7 to improve to 13-0 on the year while the Chargers fell to a respectable 11-2 mark in only the fourth year of the program’s existence.
The weight of being the top seed proved too much to bear Friday night with Mountain Pointe dropping a 56-31 game to No. 4 Perry in the 6A ranks, Cienega losing a 5A semifinal 37-34 to No. 4 Notre Dame and Sunrise Mountain losing to No. 4 Salpointe 49-27 in 4A
This will be the first-ever meeting between the Lions and the Chargers, but that’s understandable considering Ben Franklin competed as an independent squad in 2014 before entering the AIA ranks in 2015.