Basketball Preview: Olympic Heights Lions vs. Somerset Academy - Canyons Cougars
A feisty cat fight will be fought when the Olympic Heights Lions take on the Somerset Academy - Canyons Cougars at 7:30 p.m. on Monday... Olympic Heights is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 64.5 points per game this season.
Last Thursday, Olympic Heights beat Santaluces 52-44. The 52-point effort marked the Lions' lowest-scoring matchup of the season, but in the end it didn't matter.
Jake Harbatkin was his usual excellent self, going 10 for 17 en route to 29 points plus six rebounds. The match was his third in a row with at least ten points. The team also got some help courtesy of Richard Bloomfield, who had six points in addition to four steals.
Meanwhile, Somerset Academy - Canyons came up short against King's Academy on Thursday and fell 46-36. The Cougars have struggled against the Lions recently, as the game was their third consecutive lost matchup.
Somerset Academy - Canyons' loss dropped their record down to 3-2. As for Olympic Heights, their win bumped their record up to 4-2.
Olympic Heights came up short against Somerset Academy - Canyons when the teams last played back in January, falling 65-56. Can Olympic Heights avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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