Basketball Preview: La Joya Community Fighting Lobos vs. Marcos de Niza Padres
The La Joya Community Fighting Lobos will look to take advantage of their home-court for the first time this season as they take on the Marcos de Niza Padres at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Both teams are coming into the contest red-hot, with La Joya Community sitting on four straight victories and Marcos de Niza on five.
La Joya Community will head into Thursday's game hoping to keep the good times rolling: they only won by three when they last took the court, which might have inspired the 29-point they dealt Crismon on Thursday. La Joya Community took their match with ease, bagging a 55-26 win over Crismon. That 29 point margin sets a new team best for the Fighting Lobos this season.
Multiple players turned in solid performances to lead La Joya Community to victory, but perhaps none more so than Joseph Rukundo, who almost dropped a double-double on 16 points and nine rebounds. Rukundo is trending in the right direction considering he's improved his point production for three straight games. The team also got some help courtesy of Isaiah Carter, who dropped a double-double on 13 points and 12 rebounds.
La Joya Community smashed the offensive glass and finished the game with 24 offensive rebounds. That's the most offensive rebounds they've managed all season.
While Marcos de Niza didn't have the best season last year (they finished 7-18), it's starting to look like those struggles are a thing of the past. They blew past Moon Valley 68-35 on Friday. The Padres have made a habit of sweeping their opponents off the court, having now won four matchups by 20 points or more this season.
Marcos de Niza got their victory on the backs of several key players, but it was James Steward out in front who dropped a double-double on 17 points and 15 rebounds. The contest was Steward's eighth in a row with at least ten points. Another player making a difference was Jeidarion Richard, who went 7 for 10 en route to 17 points.
La Joya Community's win bumped their record up to 5-1. As for Marcos de Niza, their victory bumped their record up to 6-1.
Some high-performance offense is likely on the agenda as both are some of the highest scoring teams in the league. La Joya Community hasn't had any problem running up the score this season, having averaged 55.7 points per game. However, it's not like Marcos de Niza struggles in that department as they've been averaging 70. With both teams so easily able to put up points, the only question left is who can run the score up higher Come back here after the game to get an analysis of the match and other basketball content.
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