Preview: Hubbard Eagles vs. Cardinal Mooney Cardinals
The Hubbard Eagles will head out on the road to take on the Cardinal Mooney Cardinals at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Hubbard will have to bring their A-game into this one, as they are staring down a pretty big deficit in the MaxPreps Ohio Rankings (they are ranked 551st, while Cardinal Mooney is ranked 86th).
Hubbard waltzed into their game on Tuesday with two straight wins but they left with three. In a tight contest that could have gone either way, they made off with a 62-61 win over Mathews. Having run the score up that high, both teams might be doing some extra defensive drills very soon.
Hubbard got their win on the backs of several key players, but it was Braydon Songer out in front who dropped a double-double on 21 points and 11 rebounds. As a matter of fact, that's the most points Songer has scored all season. The team also got some help courtesy of Kenyen Franklin, who scored 19 points.
Meanwhile, you can't lose the contest if you win every quarter, and that was precisely Cardinal Mooney's strategy against Chaney on Tuesday. Cardinal Mooney walked away with a 47-39 win over Chaney.
Hubbard now has a winning record of 11-10. As for Cardinal Mooney, they have been performing incredibly well recently as they've won seven of their last eight games, which provided a nice bump to their 15-5 record this season.
Hubbard suffered a grim 62-36 defeat to Cardinal Mooney in their previous meeting back in February of 2023. Can Hubbard avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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