Preview: Seminole Seminoles vs. Evans Trojans
Two dominant guards in Josiah Shackelford and Arosco Dubois are getting ready to go toe-to-toe. The Seminole Seminoles will face off against the Evans Trojans at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Expect the scorekeeper to be kept busy: if their previous games are any indication, the pair will really light up the scoreboard.
It can be hard to translate regular season success to the playoffs, but Seminole had no problem doing just that on Tuesday. They came out on top against the Cougars by a score of 75-64. The victory made it back-to-back wins for Seminole.
Multiple players turned in solid performances to lead Seminole to victory, but perhaps none more so than Shackelford, who scored 26 points along with eight rebounds and five assists. That makes it six consecutive games in which Shackelford has scored at least a third of Seminole's points. The team also got some help courtesy of Jorden Pittman, who scored 16 points along with two steals.
Meanwhile, Evans came tearing into Tuesday's matchup with three straight wins (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 19.7 points) and they left with even more momentum. They walked away with a 63-55 victory over Ocoee.
Seminole's victory ended a three-game drought at home and bumped them up to 22-7. As for Evans, they are on a roll lately: they've won seven of their last eight matches, which provided a nice bump to their 19-9 record this season.
Seminole skirted past Evans 61-58 in their previous meeting back in February of 2022. Will Seminole repeat their success, or does Evans have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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