Preview: Dexter Demons vs. Tucumcari Rattlers
Dexter has enjoyed a four-game homestand but will soon have to dust off their road jerseys. They will square off against the Tucumcari Rattlers at 5:30 p.m. on Friday. Dexter comes in on a streak of failing to score more than 23 points in their last six games, a trend the team is of course eager to reverse.
On Tuesday, Dexter came up short against New Mexico Military Institute and fell 33-20.
Meanwhile, Tucumcari had already won five in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 28.8 points), and they went ahead and made it six on Tuesday. They came out on top against Ruidoso by a score of 63-51. Tucumcari pushed the score to 54-34 by the end of the third, a deficit Ruidoso cut but never quite recovered from.
Tucumcari's success was spearheaded by the efforts of Kyla Lopez, who almost dropped a double-double on 23 points and nine rebounds, and Caylee Benavidez, who scored 23 points along with six assists and five rebounds. Lopez has been hot recently, having posted two or more steals the last 19 times she's played. July Lafferty was another key contributor, almost dropping a double-double on nine points and 12 rebounds.
Dexter's loss was their sixth straight at home, which dropped their record down to 3-20. Those losses could be blamed on the team's offensive performance across that stretch, as they only averaged 20.0 points per game. As for Tucumcari, their victory bumped their record up to 18-3.
Dexter was dealt a bruising 50-20 loss at the hands of Tucumcari in their previous meeting two weeks ago. That contest was all but decided by halftime, at which point Dexter was down 41-7.
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