Basketball Recap: Turtle Mountain Falls Short Against Ranked Rugby

On Tuesday, Turtle Mountain faced Rugby in a battle between two of the state's top teams. The Turtle Mountain Braves took a 46-38 hit to the loss column at the hands of the Rugby Panthers. Unfortunately, that's the second time they've come up short against the Panthers this season, as they also lost their prior matchup 48-42 two weeks ago.

Turtle Mountain's loss dropped their record down to 19-8. As for Rugby, the win was the sixth in a row for them, bringing their record for this year to 15-7.

Turtle Mountain has already played their next matchup (against Rugby), but no score has been uploaded at the time of writing. As for Rugby, they didn't take long to hit the court again: they've already played their next contest, a 48-31 victory against South Prairie/Max on the 25th.