Basketball Preview: Windber Ramblers vs. North Star Cougars
Windber has gone 8-2 against North Star recently and they'll look to pad the win column further on Friday. The Windber Ramblers will take on the North Star Cougars at 7:15 p.m.
Windber can't be to happy about their upcoming road matchup considering what happened when they opened their season on the away from home on Friday. They fell just short of Richland by a score of 51-48. The Ramblers haven't had much luck with the Rams recently, as the team's come up short the last four times they've met.
Meanwhile, a well-balanced attack led North Star over Claysburg-Kimmel in every quarter on their way to victory on Tuesday. Given that consistent dominance, it should come as no surprise that North Star blew Claysburg-Kimmel out of the water with a 67-39 final score. The game was all but wrapped up at the end of the third, by which point the Cougars had established a 23 point advantage.
Andy Retassie had an outrageously good game as he almost dropped a double-double on 18 points and nine assists. The team also got some help courtesy of Bryson Durst, who scored 11 points plus five assists and four steals.
Windber was able to grind out a solid win over North Star when the teams last played back in February, winning 64-51. Will Windber repeat their success, or does North Star have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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