Basketball Preview: Lincoln Park Lions vs. St. Laurence Vikings
The Lincoln Park Lions and the St. Laurence Vikings will face off at 7:00 p.m. on Friday without much rest after finishing up games yesterday. Lincoln Park knows how to get points on the board -- the team has finished with 55 points or more in their past five contests -- so hopefully St. Laurence likes a good challenge.
Lincoln Park will head into Thursday's match hoping to keep the good times rolling: they proved they can win big on Saturday (they won by 50) but on Thursday they proved they can win the close ones too. They had just enough and edged Whitney Young out 74-71.
Lincoln Park's win was the result of several impressive offensive performances. One of the most notable came from Ahmad Lee, who had 19 points along with seven assists. Lee's evening made it three games in a row in which he has scored at least ten points. The team also got some help courtesy of Larry Harris, who dropped a double-double on 18 points and ten rebounds.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask St. Laurence). They claimed a resounding 74-38 win over Providence Catholic. The matchup was all but wrapped up at the end of the third, by which point the Vikings had established a 34 point advantage.
St. Laurence's victory bumped their record up to 3-1. As for Lincoln Park, their win bumped their record up to 5-0.
Lincoln Park didn't have too much breathing room in their game against St. Laurence when the teams last played back in January of 2023, but they still walked away with a 50-45 victory. Does Lincoln Park have another victory up their sleeve, or will St. Laurence turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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