Basketball Game Preview: Paulding Panthers vs. Pettisville Blackbirds

The Paulding Panthers just played yesterday, but they'll still head out to face the Pettisville Blackbirds at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday.

Paulding can't be too happy about their upcoming road matchup considering what happened when they opened their season away from home on Friday. They took a 59-51 hit to the loss column at the hands of Defiance. The Panthers have struggled against the Bulldogs recently, as the game was their fifth consecutive lost matchup.

Meanwhile, Pettisville made easy work of Stryker on Thursday and carried off a 49-26 win. The Blackbirds pushed the score to 36-15 by the end of the third, a deficit the Panthers had little chance of recovering from.

Paulding couldn't quite get it done against Pettisville in their previous meeting back in December of 2024 as they fell 44-33. Can the Panthers avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.