Basketball Game Preview: Ocoee Knights vs. Oak Ridge Pioneers
By Team Reports
Jan 7, 2025, 10:54pm
Basketball Preview: Ocoee Knights vs. Oak Ridge Pioneers
The Ocoee Knights will take on the Oak Ridge Pioneers at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday. Expect the scorekeeper to be kept busy: if their previous games are any indication, the two teams will really light up the scoreboard.
Oak Ridge is facing Ocoee at the wrong time: Ocoee suffered their first home loss of the season on Tuesday and they're likely out for redemption. They fell just short of the Hornets by a score of 62-59. Despite running the score up even higher than they did in their prior game last Saturday (56), the Knights still had to take the loss.
Meanwhile, Oak Ridge entered their tilt with DeLand on Tuesday with three consecutive wins but they'll enter their next game with four. They blew past the Bulldogs 65-35. The matchup was all but wrapped up at the end of the third, by which point the Pioneers had established a 20 point advantage.
Oak Ridge has been performing well recently as they've won six of their last eight contests, which provided a nice bump to their 11-6 record this season. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 55.5 points per game. As for Ocoee, their defeat ended a five-game streak of wins at home and dropped them to 13-3.
Ocoee won a game that couldn't have been any closer in their previous matchup back in January of 2024, slipping by Oak Ridge 45-44. Does Ocoee have another victory up their sleeve, or will Oak Ridge turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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