Preview: Liberty Creek Wolves vs. White House-Heritage Patriots
The Liberty Creek Wolves will look to defend their home court on Tuesday against the White House-Heritage Patriots at 6:00 p.m. Both teams come into the contest bolstered by wins in their previous matches.
Last Saturday, even if it wasn't a dominant performance, Liberty Creek beat York Institute 43-37. The win made it back-to-back wins for Liberty Creek.
Meanwhile, White House-Heritage entered their tilt with Monterey with two consecutive wins but they'll enter their next game with three. Everything went White House-Heritage's way against Monterey on Saturday as White House-Heritage made off with a 63-40 win. Given White House-Heritage's advantage in MaxPreps' Tennessee basketball rankings (they are ranked 180th, while Monterey is ranked 410th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
White House-Heritage found their leader in underclassman Avery Coles, who dropped a double-double on 22 points and 16 rebounds. That makes it three consecutive games in which Coles has scored at least a third of White House-Heritage's points. The team also got some help courtesy of Aric Lopez, who scored ten points along with five assists and two steals.
Liberty Creek is on a roll lately: they've won three of their last four games, which provided a nice bump to their 20-9 record this season. As for White House-Heritage, their victory bumped their record up to 18-10.
Liberty Creek and White House-Heritage were neck-and-neck in their previous matchup last Saturday, but Liberty Creek came up empty-handed after a 49-48 loss. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Coles, who dropped a double-double on 17 points and 13 rebounds. Now that Liberty Creek 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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