Basketball Game Preview: Eastside Catholic Crusaders vs. Roosevelt Roughriders

By Team Reports Feb 12, 2025, 1:29am

Basketball Preview: Eastside Catholic Crusaders vs. Roosevelt Roughriders

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Eastside Catholic is 9-1 against Roosevelt since December of 2015 and they'll have a chance to extend that dominance on Wednesday. The Eastside Catholic Crusaders will be playing at home against the Roosevelt Roughriders at 7:30 p.m. One thing working in Eastside Catholic's favor is that they have posted at least 55 points in their last five contests.

Eastside Catholic came up short against Seattle Prep on Monday, falling 91-67. Despite running the score up even higher than they did in their prior game last Saturday (62), the Crusaders still had to take the loss.

Meanwhile, Roosevelt lost 76-51 to Garfield on Monday. The defeat continues a trend for the Roughriders in their matchups with the Bulldogs: they've now lost seven in a row.

Eastside Catholic has been struggling recently as they've lost seven of their last nine matchups, which has put a noticeable dent in their 11-11 record this season. As for Roosevelt, their loss dropped their record down to 10-12.

Eastside Catholic couldn't quite finish off Roosevelt in their previous matchup back in January and fell 59-56. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Roosevelt's Elliot (EJ) Sommers, who posted 20 points. Now that Eastside Catholic knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? There's only one way to find out.

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