Preview: Laneville Yellowjackets vs. Brookeland Wildcats
The Laneville Yellowjackets will square off against the Brookeland Wildcats at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Both squads will be entering this one on the heels of a big victory.
Two teams were on the hunt for playoff glory, but only Laneville walked away with it. They really took it to the Yellowjackets for the full four quarters, racking up a 65-37 victory on the road. Laneville pushed the score to 53-26 by the end of the third, a deficit Coolidge had little chance of recovering from.
Multiple players turned in solid performances to lead Laneville to victory, but perhaps none more so than Matthew Johnson, who scored 19 points. The team also got some help courtesy of De'Marea Lewis, who scored 14 points along with six assists and five rebounds.
Meanwhile, Brookeland had already won 14 in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 41.4 points), and they went ahead and made it 15 on Friday. They simply couldn't be stopped as they easily beat Abbott 70-32 on the road.
Laneville is on a roll lately: they've won 17 of their last 19 contests, which provided a nice bump to their 24-14 record this season. As for Brookeland, their win bumped their record up to 28-7.
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