Basketball Game Preview: Tree of Life Christian Trojans vs. Pleasant Spartans

The Tree of Life Christian Trojans will square off against the Pleasant Spartans at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday. Both come into the contest bolstered by wins in their previous matches.

On Tuesday, Tree of Life Christian earned a 22-15 win over Madison Christian. The 22-point effort marked the Trojans' lowest-scoring match of the season, but in the end it didn't matter.

Meanwhile, you're bound to get a positive result if you outscore your opponent every quarter, and that's exactly how it played out for Pleasant on Tuesday. Given that consistent dominance, it should come as no surprise that they blew Galion out of the water with a 57-24 final score. Given the Spartans' advantage in MaxPreps' Ohio basketball rankings (they are ranked 225th, while the Tigers are ranked 681st), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.

Pleasant is also on a roll lately: they've won four of their last five games, which provided a nice bump to their 13-6 record this season. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 50.4 points per game. As for Tree of Life Christian, their victory ended a four-game drought on the road and puts them at 9-7.