Basketball Preview: Concord Spiders vs. South Rowan Raiders
The Concord Spiders will take on the South Rowan Raiders at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Concord is looking for their season's first victory.
Concord will head into Thursday's game ready to turn things around: they couldn't quite beat Mount Pleasant on Thursday, but the three-point margin was a huge improvement compared to the 26-point defeat they were dealt on Wednesday. Concord fell just short of Mount Pleasant by a score of 27-24. While the Spiders didn't get the win, they did start the game off strong, beating the Tigers 8-4 in the first quarter.
Concord got a good chunk of their points from the dynamic duo of
Khole Taylor and
Kaylin Williams, who each put up seven points.
Natalie Nebrick held things down on the boards with nine rebounds.
Meanwhile, after soaring to 55 points the game before, South Rowan was a bit more limited in their matchup on Friday. They took a blow against Robinson, falling 61-23. The match marked the Raiders' lowest-scoring contest so far this season.
South Rowan moved to 3-2 with that loss, which also ended their three-game winning streak. As for Concord, their defeat dropped their record down to 0-6.
Concord came out on top in a nail-biter against South Rowan in their previous meeting back in February, sneaking past 54-51. Will Concord repeat their success, or does South Rowan have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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