Basketball Game Preview: Grossmont Foothillers vs. Granite Hills Eagles

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Previous Games

01/21/25 - Home	61-39 W
02/09/24 - Home	56-23 W
01/23/24 - Away	29-30 L
05/28/21 - Away	62-11 W
05/07/21 - Home	62-42 W
+ 4 more games

Grossmont has gone 8-1 against Granite Hills recently and they'll look to pad the win column further on Tuesday. The Grossmont Foothillers will head out to face off against the Granite Hills Eagles at 6:30 p.m. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Grossmont has seven straight wins, Granite Hills has four straight losses), but none of that matters once you're on the court.

Last Friday, Grossmont took their contest with ease, bagging a 62-17 victory over Steele Canyon. The Foothillers have made a habit of sweeping their opponents off the court, having now won ten matchups by 20 points or more this season.

Meanwhile, Granite Hills played a tough game on Friday in which they were outscored in every quarter. They came up short against Helix, falling 54-29.

Grossmont will have to keep a close watch on Jillian Griffith and Ajak Agoth, a pair of players who had a big impact on Granite Hills' prior game. Griffith posted 11 points, while Agoth had 12 points. The dominant performance gave Griffith a new career-high in points.

Grossmont's win was their seventh straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 20-3. The wins came thanks in part to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 56.0 points over those games. As for Granite Hills, their defeat dropped their record down to 11-14.

Everything went Grossmont's way against Granite Hills when the teams last played back in January, as Grossmont made off with a 61-39 victory. One of the biggest obstacles the team faced in that game was Granite Hills' Kerstena Tomika, who dropped a double-double on 19 points and ten boards. Now that she's got a second chance to win this matchup, will Grossmont still be able to contain Tomika? There's only one way to find out.