Preview: Newport Wildcats vs. Cooper Jaguars
The Newport Wildcats's road trip will continue as they head out to face the Cooper Jaguars at 7:00 p.m. on March 12th. Keep an eye on the score for this one: the two teams posted some lofty point totals in their previous games.
Newport stacked a 12th blowout win onto their ever-increasing hoard on Sunday. They took their match on the road with ease, bagging a 60-29 win over Lloyd Memorial. Newport pushed the score to 46-18 by the end of the third, a deficit Lloyd Memorial had little chance of recovering from.
Newport's victory was a true team effort, with many players turning in solid performances. Perhaps the best among them was Tay Kinney, who scored 13 points along with six rebounds and five assists. Kinney hasn't dropped below two steals for seven straight games. Another player making a difference was Jabari Covington, who scored 14 points along with eight rebounds.
Meanwhile, Cooper came tearing into two weeks ago's game with three straight wins (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 22.3 points) and they left with even more momentum. They came out on top against Conner by a score of 69-61. Given Cooper's advantage in MaxPreps' Kentucky basketball rankings (they are ranked 14th, while Conner is ranked 96th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Newport is on a roll lately: they've won 24 of their last 25 games, which provided a nice bump to their 31-3 record this season. As for Cooper, they pushed their record up to 21-8 with that victory, which was their third straight at home.
Newport didn't have too much breathing room in their matchup against Cooper in their previous meeting back in February, but they still walked away with a 48-42 victory. Does Newport have another victory up their sleeve, or will Cooper turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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