Basketball Game Preview: West Wilkes Blackhawks vs. South Caldwell Spartans

The West Wilkes Blackhawks will take on the South Caldwell Spartans at 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Keep an eye on the score for this one: the two teams posted some lofty point totals in their previous games.

After dropping their season opener at home, South Caldwell is headed out to face a Blackhawks squad ready to give their home crowd a win. West Wilkes was just a bucket shy of victory on Friday and fell 64-63 to Avery County. The defeat continues a trend for the Blackhawks in their meetings with the Vikings: they've now lost three in a row.

Meanwhile, South Caldwell had to travel to play their first game of the season, but the final result was worth the trip. They breezed past West Caldwell to the tune of 79-43 on Friday. The Spartans pushed the score to 63-35 by the end of the third, a deficit the Warriors had little chance of recovering from.