Basketball Game Preview: Clay-Chalkville Cougars vs. Gardendale Rockets

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Previous Games

01/18/22 - Away	42-41 W
01/04/22 - Home	66-44 W
02/09/21 - Home	76-38 W
01/25/21 - Away	66-64 W
01/19/21 - Home	63-48 W
+ 5 more games

Clay-Chalkville is 8-2 against Gardendale since December of 2018 and they'll have a chance to extend that success on Thursday. The Clay-Chalkville Cougars will welcome the Gardendale Rockets at 7:30 p.m. Given that the two teams suffered a loss in their last games, they both have a little extra motivation heading into this game.

Clay-Chalkville is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Alabama's top teams: Mountain Brook, who was ranked 12th at the time (Clay-Chalkville was ranked 23rd). Clay-Chalkville fell 59-47 to Mountain Brook on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, Gardendale didn't have quite enough to beat Pinson Valley on Tuesday and fell 70-68. That's two games in a row now that the Rockets have lost by exactly two points.

Clay-Chalkville's loss dropped their record down to 15-7. As for Gardendale, this is the second loss in a row for them and nudges their season record down to 7-12.

Clay-Chalkville won a match that couldn't have been any closer in their previous meeting back in January of 2022, slipping by Gardendale 42-41. Will Clay-Chalkville repeat their success, or does Gardendale have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.