Basketball Preview: Moline Maroons vs. Urbana Tigers
Moline is 5-0 against Urbana since December of 2017, and they'll have a chance to extend that success on Saturday. The Moline Maroons just played yesterday, but they'll still head out to face the Urbana Tigers at 2:30 p.m. Moline knows how to get points on the board -- the team has finished with 55 points or more in their past five games -- so hopefully Urbana likes a good challenge.
On Friday, Moline was fully in charge, breezing past Sterling 77-45. The 77-point effort marked the Maroons' lowest-scoring matchup of the season, but in the end it didn't matter.
Meanwhile, it was a proper cat-fight when Urbana took on Normal West on Thursday. Urbana breezed by Normal West to the tune of 69-33. The high-flying offensive performance was a huge turnaround for the Tigers considering their 29-point performance the match before.
Moline pushed their record up to 5-0 with the win, which was their 15th straight at home dating back to last season. As for Urbana, the victory made it two in a row for them and bumps their season record up to 2-0.
Everything came up roses for Moline against Urbana when the teams last played back in December of 2022, as the squad secured an 86-32 win. Will Moline repeat their success, or does Urbana have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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