Preview: Pathways Eagles vs. Mountain Mission Challengers
The Pathways Eagles will be staying on the road on Friday to face off against the Mountain Mission Challengers at 11:00 a.m. on March 1st. Expect the scorekeeper to be kept busy: if their previous games are any indication, both teams will really light up the scoreboard.
Pathways stacked an 11th blowout win onto their ever-increasing hoard on Thursday. They blew past Georgia Force Christian 62-39. Pathways pushed the score to 48-20 by the end of the third, a deficit Georgia Force Christian cut but never quite recovered from.
Pathways got their win on the backs of several key players, but it was Steven Edwards out in front who scored 24 points along with six rebounds and three steals. Another player making a difference was Branden Southall, who scored 12 points along with five steals.
Meanwhile, Mountain Mission had already won three in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 13 points), and they went ahead and made it four on Thursday. They walked away with a 72-60 victory over Community Christian. Given Mountain Mission's advantage in MaxPreps' basketball rankings in their respective home states (they are ranked 125th in Virginia, while Community Christian is ranked 403rd in Florida), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Pathways is on a roll lately: they've won 15 of their last 18 games, which provided a nice bump to their 27-7 record this season. As for Mountain Mission, their win bumped their record up to 19-7.
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