Preview: Cottonwood Colts vs. Bear River Bears
Cottonwood is 0-3 against Bear River since January of 2018 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Friday. The Cottonwood Colts are on the road again and plays the Bear River Bears at 7:00 p.m. on February 23rd. Cottonwood has been dominant on offense recently, as they've racked up an incredible 787 points over their last 11 games.
Even though Park City scored an imposing 65 points on Friday, Cottonwood still came out on top. Cottonwood walked away with a 76-65 victory over Park City. Given Cottonwood's advantage in MaxPreps' Utah basketball rankings (they are ranked 26th, while Park City is ranked 100th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
The match pitted two dominant forwards against one another in Christopher Cox and Duke Gordon. Cox had a great game and scored 26 points along with eight rebounds. Meanwhile, Gordon was balling out in the loss, scoring 19 points.
Meanwhile, it can be hard to translate regular season success to the playoffs, but Bear River had no problem doing just that on Wednesday. They narrowly escaped with a victory as the squad sidled past the Tigers 58-55. Having run the score up that high, both teams might be doing some extra defensive drills very soon.
Cottonwood has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won 14 of their last 16 matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 18-5 record this season. As for Bear River, their victory bumped their record up to 15-8.
Cottonwood couldn't quite finish off Bear River in their previous matchup back in December of 2020 and fell 59-57. Thankfully for Cottonwood, Kace Jones (who dropped a double-double on 25 points and 14 rebounds) won't be suiting up this time. Will that be enough to change the final result? Check MaxPreps.com after the match to find out.
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