Basketball Recap: Republic Drops Season-High Score on Joplin
By Team Reports
Feb 17, 2025, 6:23pm
Basketball Recap: Republic Tigers vs. Joplin Eagles

Tigers
02/14/25 vs Joplin | 75 |
02/06/25 vs Webb City | 73 |
12/27/24 vs Camdenton | 73 |
01/30/25 vs Central | 68 |
01/27/25 @ Lebanon | 60 |
Winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Republic). They breezed past the Joplin Eagles to the tune of 75-14 on Friday. Winning may never get old, but the Tigers sure are getting used to it with their seventh in a row.
Republic pushed their record up to 14-8 with the victory, which was their fourth straight at home. They've dominated over that stretch too, winning by an average of 38 points. As for Joplin, they have been struggling recently as they've lost seven of their last nine contests, which has put a noticeable dent in their 6-9 record this season.
Republic has already played their next matchup (against Kickapoo), but no score has been uploaded at the time of writing. Joplin also has no score uploaded for their next game, this one against Carthage.
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