Preview: Rural Retreat Indians vs. Honaker Tigers
Rural Retreat is 0-3 against Honaker since February of 2021 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Friday. The Rural Retreat Indians will head out on the road to face off against the Honaker Tigers at 7:00 p.m. Both squads will be entering this one on the heels of a big victory.
Rural Retreat entered their tilt with Chilhowie with six consecutive wins but they'll enter their next game with seven. Rural Retreat breezed by Chilhowie at home to the tune of 51-5 on Wednesday. Given Rural Retreat's advantage in MaxPreps' Virginia basketball rankings (they are ranked 154th, while Chilhowie is ranked 330th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Meanwhile, Honaker had already won 14 in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 44.7 points), and they went ahead and made it 15 on Wednesday. They claimed a resounding 75-6 victory over Patrick Henry at home.
Honaker got their win on the backs of several key players, but it was Alayna McNulty out in front who almost dropped a triple-double on 18 points, ten rebounds, and nine assists. McNulty is on a roll when it comes to points, as she's now scored 17 or more in the last four games she's played. Kathryn Jessee was another key contributor, dropping a double-double on 16 points and ten rebounds.
Rural Retreat is on a roll lately: they've won ten of their last 11 matches, which provided a nice bump to their 18-6 record this season. As for Honaker, they pushed their record up to 20-3 with that win, which was their eighth straight at home.
Rural Retreat took a serious blow against Honaker in their previous meeting back in January, falling 52-23. Can Rural Retreat avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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