Basketball Game Preview: San Jacinto Tigers vs. Sage Hill Lightning

Two dominant guards in Luvlee Sadler and Amalia Holguin are getting ready to go toe-to-toe. The San Jacinto Tigers are taking a road trip to challenge the Sage Hill Lightning at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday. San Jacinto is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 59 points per game this season.

San Jacinto will head out to face Sage Hill after giving up their first home loss of the season on Saturday. San Jacinto fell 64-54 to Santa Margarita. While losing is never fun, the Tigers can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' California basketball rankings (they are ranked 177th, while the Eagles are ranked 44th).

San Jacinto's loss shouldn't obscure the performances of Sadler, who dropped a double-double on 24 points and 14 rebounds, and Keyera Cameron, who dropped a double-double on 14 points and 11 boards. Sadler's morning made it five games in a row in which she has scored at least ten points. The team also got some help courtesy of Miyah Stevenson, who posted five points along with six rebounds and three steals.

Even though they lost, San Jacinto smashed the offensive glass and finished the game with 23 offensive boards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now pulled down at least 23 offensive rebounds in three consecutive games.

Meanwhile, Sage Hill entered their tilt with Woodbridge on Monday with seven consecutive wins but they'll enter their next game with eight. They breezed by the Warriors to the tune of 77-20.

Sage Hill has also been performing incredibly well recently as they've won nine of their last ten contests, which provided a nice bump to their 16-7 record this season. The wins came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 64.8 points per game. As for San Jacinto, their defeat ended a 13-game streak of wins at home dating back to last season and dropped them to 18-5.