Preview: Grants Pirates vs. Valencia Jaguars
Grants is 1-9 against Valencia since February of 2020 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Monday. The Grants Pirates will head out on the road to challenge the Valencia Jaguars at 6:00 p.m. Grants will have to bring their A-game into this one, as they are staring down a pretty big deficit in the MaxPreps New Mexico Rankings (they are ranked 97th, while Valencia is ranked 27th).
Grants was not able to break out of their rough patch on Tuesday as the team picked up their fourth straight defeat. They fell just short of Belen by a score of 38-35.
Meanwhile, everything went Valencia's way against Belen on Friday as Valencia made off with a 53-32 victory. The victory made it back-to-back wins for Valencia.
It was another big night for Jadyn Montoya, who scored 21 points along with seven rebounds and five assists. That makes it 12 consecutive games in which she has scored at least a third of Valencia's points. The team also got some help courtesy of Eden Montgomery, who scored six points along with 11 rebounds and six blocks.
Grants' defeat dropped their record down to 4-21. As for Valencia, they have been performing well recently as they've won five of their last six contests, which provided a massive bump to their 16-10 record this season.
Grants ended up a good deal behind Valencia in their previous meeting on February 9th, losing 63-45. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Montoya, who scored 28 points along with eight rebounds and three steals. Now that Grants knows the damage she can cause, will they be able to stop her this time? There's only one way to find out.
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