Basketball Game Preview: Kearns Cougars vs. Taylorsville Warriors

Two dominant guards in Kayden Stark and Kobe Allen are getting ready to go toe-to-toe. The Kearns Cougars will challenge the Taylorsville Warriors at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Expect the scorekeeper to be kept busy: if their previous games are any indication, both will really light up the scoreboard.

Kearns is headed into the game after thoroughly thrashing Granger: they outscored them in every quarter. Given that consistent dominance, it should come as no surprise that Kearns blew Granger out of the water with an 81-44 final score. The Cougars pushed the score to 64-33 by the end of the third, a deficit the Lancers had no chance of recovering from.

Meanwhile, Taylorsville ended up a good deal behind Cyprus on Tuesday and lost 85-66. Despite running the score up even higher than they did in their prior game on Friday (63), the Warriors still had to take the loss.

Kearns will need focus on slowing down Logan Bertagnolli, one of several Taylorsville players who made an impact when they last played. He posted 23 points and five rebounds. With that strong performance, Bertagnolli is now averaging an impressive 15.1 points per game. Another player making a difference was Allen, who almost dropped a double-double on 20 points and nine assists.

Kearns is on a roll lately: they've won four of their last five matches, which provided a massive bump to their 7-6 record this season. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 71.6 points per game. As for Taylorsville, they dropped their record down to 3-10 with the loss, which was their seventh straight on the road dating back to last season.

Kearns strolled past Taylorsville in their previous matchup back in February of 2024 by a score of 73-57. One of the biggest obstacles trying to stand in the way of that victory was Taylorsville's Bronson Dallimore, who dropped a double-double on 22 points and 11 rebounds. Now that he won't be playing on Friday, will it be easier for Kearns to walk away with another win? There's only one way to find out.