Preview: Sacred Heart Gremlins vs. Tipton Cardinals
Sacred Heart has been on the road for three straight, but on Friday they'll finally head home. They will take on the Tipton Cardinals at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Sacred Heart has been dominant on offense recently, as they've racked up an incredible 339 points over their last five games.
Sacred Heart put the finishing touches on their tenth blowout victory of the season on Tuesday. They blew past La Monte 62-38. Given Sacred Heart's advantage in MaxPreps' Missouri basketball rankings (they are ranked 127th, while La Monte is ranked 467th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Meanwhile, even though Stover scored an imposing 62 points on Tuesday, Tipton still came out on top. Tipton had just enough and edged Stover out 65-62. The victory made it back-to-back wins for Tipton.
Multiple players turned in solid performances to lead Tipton to victory, but perhaps none more so than Dane Schlotzhauer, who scored 30 points. As a matter of fact, that's the most points Schlotzhauer has scored all season. Another player making a difference was Jackson Bailey, who scored 13 points along with eight rebounds and four steals.
Sacred Heart is on a roll lately: they've won eight of their last nine games, which provided a nice bump to their 19-5 record this season. As for Tipton, their victory was their ninth straight at home, which pushed their record up to 18-8.
Sacred Heart came up short against Tipton in their previous matchup two weeks ago, falling 53-47. Can Sacred Heart avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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