Basketball Game Preview: Lotus School For Excellence Meteors vs. Cripple Creek-Victor Pioneers

The Lotus School For Excellence Meteors will take on the Cripple Creek-Victor Pioneers at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Lotus School For Excellence is coming into the matchup hot, having won their last six games.

Last Wednesday, Lotus School For Excellence was able to grind out a solid victory over Arvada, taking the game 63-54.

Abinabi Goitom

Points (Career)

02/05/25 vs Arvada	19
01/16/25 vs Crescent View Academy	16
01/18/25 vs Denver Waldorf	14
01/17/25 vs Centennial	11
12/04/24 vs Crescent View Academy	9

Multiple players turned in solid performances to lead Lotus School For Excellence to victory, but perhaps none more so than Abinabi Goitom, who went 9 for 10 to rack up 19 points. Those 19 points gave Goitom a new career-high. The team also got some help courtesy of Kirubel Lemma, who went 5 of 7 on his way to 15 points.

Meanwhile, you're bound to get a positive result if you outscore your opponent every quarter, and that's exactly how it played out for Cripple Creek-Victor on Thursday. They walked away with a 34-26 win over Deer Trail. The victory made it back-to-back wins for the Pioneers.

Lotus School For Excellence pushed their record up to 13-3 with the victory, which was their sixth straight at home. As for Cripple Creek-Victor, their win bumped their record up to 4-9.