Basketball Game Preview: Heritage Christian Eagles vs. First Baptist Saints

Heritage Christian hasn't had much luck against First Baptist recently, but that could start to change on Saturday. The Heritage Christian Eagles will take on the First Baptist Saints in a tournament on Saturday. Each of these teams will be fighting to keep a win streak alive as Heritage Christian comes in on six and First Baptist on three.

Heritage Christian will head into Thursday's matchup hoping to keep the good times rolling: they proved they can win big on Thursday (they won by 45) and on Thursday they proved they can win the close ones too. They sure made it a nail-biter, but they managed to escape with a 56-53 victory over Nazarene Christian Academy. While the Eagles didn't have the best season last year (they finished 4-7), it's starting to look like those struggles are a thing of the past.

Meanwhile, everything came up roses for First Baptist against Calvary Academy on Thursday as the team secured a 73-44 win.

First Baptist's victory bumped their record up to 3-0. As for Heritage Christian, their win bumped their record up to 7-1.

Heritage Christian suffered a grim 61-35 defeat to First Baptist in their previous meeting back in January. Can Heritage Christian avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.