Basketball Game Preview: Coal Ridge Titans vs. Aspen Skiers

By Team Reports Feb 15, 2024, 2:14am

Preview: Coal Ridge Titans vs. Aspen Skiers

Coal Ridge and Aspen are an even 5-5 against one another since February of 2018, but not for long. The Coal Ridge Titans will head out on the road to face off against the Aspen Skiers at 6:30 p.m. on Friday. Hopefully Coal Ridge focused on turnovers this week since the team gave up 13 on Tuesday.

Coal Ridge had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 7 points), and they went ahead and made it three. They came out on top against Delta by a score of 67-54.

Clay Cornejo was a one-man wrecking crew for Coal Ridge as he scored 15 points. Another player making a difference was Ben Simons, who scored 11 points along with six rebounds and five assists.

Meanwhile, Aspen came up short against Basalt on Wednesday and fell 44-36.

Coal Ridge is on a roll lately: they've won six of their last seven games, which provided a nice bump to their 12-9 record this season. As for Aspen, their loss dropped their record down to 17-5.

Coal Ridge suffered a grim 61-39 defeat to Aspen in their previous matchup back in January. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Aspen's Tommy Franceschi, who scored 17 points along with two steals. Now that Coal Ridge knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? Check MaxPreps.com after the match to find out.

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