Basketball Recap: Evans Takes a Loss

It was a Battle of the Birds when Evans took on Zwolle on Tuesday. The Evans Eagles fell to the Zwolle Hawks 62-57. While losing is never fun, the Eagles can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Louisiana basketball rankings (they are ranked 207th, while the Hawks are ranked 84th).

This is the second loss in a row for Evans and nudges their season record down to 11-19. As for Zwolle, their win was their third straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 21-12.

Both teams will have to hit the road in their upcoming games. Evans will challenge Simpson at 6:00 p.m. on Friday. One thing working in Simpson's favor is that they have posted at least 55 points in their last ten games. Zwolle has already played their next match (against Negreet), but no score has been uploaded at the time of writing.