Basketball Preview: Wright City Lumberjax vs. Tushka Tigers
Wright City and Tushka are an even 3-3 against one another since January of 2015, but not for long. The Wright City Lumberjax will be playing at home against the Tushka Tigers at 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Hopefully Wright City focused on turnovers this week as the team gave up 20 on Friday.
Wright City will head into Friday's matchup hoping to keep the good times rolling: they only won by three when they last took the court, which might have inspired the 31-point they dealt Pittsburg on Friday. Wright City really took it to Pittsburg for the full four quarters, racking up a 76-45 victory. The Lumberjax pushed the score to 60-33 by the end of the third, a deficit the Panthers had little chance of recovering from.
Rayner Beene had an outrageously good game as he went 9 for 14 en route to 23 points plus six assists and six steals. What's more, he also racked up five threes, the most he's had since back in November of 2023. Kase Lindly was another key player, going 5 for 8 en route to 13 points.
Meanwhile, Tushka was not able to break out of their rough patch on Thursday as the team picked up their third straight defeat. They lost 57-31 to Colbert. That's two games in a row now that the Tigers have lost by exactly 26 points.
Tushka's loss shouldn't obscure the performances of Cleat Zike, who earned 11 points, and Tucker Willis, who had seven points along with five rebounds.
Wright City's win bumped their record up to 2-0. As for Tushka, their defeat dropped their record down to 1-3.
Wright City couldn't quite finish off Tushka when the teams last played back in November of 2023 and fell 60-57. Thankfully for Wright City, Tagen Simon (who went 9 for 15 en route to 29 points plus seven assists and seven rebounds) won't be suiting up this time. Will that be enough to change the final result? Check MaxPreps.com after the match to find out.
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