Basketball Preview: Coolidge Colts vs. Georgetown Visitation Prep Cubs
The Coolidge Colts will head out on the road to challenge the Georgetown Visitation Prep Cubs at 5:45 p.m. on Thursday. Both are strolling into their matches after big wins in their previous games.
While Colts fans will have to keep waiting for their squad to come home, they shouldn't be too worried about the road trip considering the result of Tuesday's season opener. They breezed by Georgetown Day to the tune of 56-23 on Tuesday. With the Colts ahead 38-14 at the half, the game was all but over already.
Coolidge's success was spearheaded by the efforts of Josslyn Derricott, who dropped a double-double on 12 points and 14 rebounds, and Marshea Fisher, who dropped a double-double on 18 points and ten rebounds. Derricott has been hot for a while, having posted eight or more rebounds the last 14 times she's played. Another player making a difference was Kahmya Dixon, who scored seven points plus three steals.
Coolidge smashed the offensive glass and finished the game with 26 offensive rebounds. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now pulled down at least nine offensive rebounds in five consecutive matchups dating back to last season.
Meanwhile, you can't lose the contest if you win every quarter, and that was precisely Georgetown Visitation Prep's strategy against Jackson-Reed on Wednesday. Georgetown Visitation Prep put the hurt on Jackson-Reed with a sharp 56-30 victory. The match was all but wrapped up at the end of the third, by which point the Cubs had established a 25 point advantage.
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