Basketball Game Preview: St. Pauls Bulldogs vs. Fairmont Golden Tornadoes

St. Pauls and Fairmont are an even 5-5 against one another since February of 2022, but not for long. The St. Pauls Bulldogs will face off against the Fairmont Golden Tornadoes at 7:30 p.m. on Friday. Expect the scorekeeper to be kept busy: if their previous games are any indication, both will really light up the scoreboard.

St. Pauls is headed into the match having just posted their biggest win since February 19, 2024 on Tuesday. They put the hurt on Red Springs with a sharp 66-41 victory. The Bulldogs pushed the score to 52-25 by the end of the third, a deficit the Red Devils cut but never quite recovered from.

Midway typically has all the answers at home, but on Tuesday Fairmont proved too difficult a challenge. They walked away with a 68-60 win over the Raiders. 68 seems to be a good number for the Golden Tornadoes as the team scooped up a victory with the same number of points in their previous game.

The win was the third in a row for Fairmont, bringing their record for this year to 13-6. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 72.3 points per game. As for St. Pauls, their victory bumped their record up to 5-14.

St. Pauls came up short against Fairmont when the teams last played back in January, falling 74-63. Can St. Pauls avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.