Basketball Preview: George County Rebels vs. Greene County Wildcats
The George County Rebels will challenge the Greene County Wildcats at 8:30 p.m. on Saturday. Both are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.
George County is headed into the matchup after thoroughly thrashing Perry Central: they outscored them in every quarter. Given that consistent dominance, it should come as no surprise that George County blew Perry Central out of the water with a 65-33 final score. The contest was all but wrapped up at the end of the third, by which point the Rebels had established a 31 point advantage.
Meanwhile, Greene County got the win against Stone on Thursday by a conclusive 61-36.
Jase Matthews was nothing short of spectacular: he dropped a double-double on 11 points and 11 rebounds. The dominant performance also gave him a new career-high in field goal percentage (80%). Noah Mcleod was another key player, posting ten points along with eight rebounds.
Greene County was working as a unit and finished the game with 14 assists. They easily outclassed their opponents in that department as Stone only posted four.
The win got George County back to even at 1-1. As for Greene County, the victory also got them back to even at 1-1.
George County came out on top in a nail-biter against Greene County in their previous meeting back in February, sneaking past 61-59. Does George County have another victory up their sleeve, or will Greene County turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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