Basketball Preview: Hilltop Lancers vs. Mission Bay Buccaneers
The Hilltop Lancers will head out on the road to challenge the Mission Bay Buccaneers at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Hilltop is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 55.4 points per game this season.
Hilltop and Rock Academy met for a duel on Friday where Hilltop prevailed. Hilltop secured a 50-45 W over Rock Academy. The win was familiar territory for the Lancers who have now won three games in a row.
Kayli Salgado was her usual excellent self, posting 30 points. That makes it four consecutive games in which she has scored at least a third of Hilltop's points. The team also got some help courtesy of Krystina Beltran, who had eight points.
Meanwhile, Mission Bay's defense stepped up to hand Castle Park a 2-0 shutout on Saturday. The two-point effort marked the Buccaneers' lowest-scoring matchup of the season, but in the end it didn't matter.
Hilltop's victory bumped their record up to 7-1. As for Mission Bay, their win bumped their record up to 2-3.
Hilltop couldn't quite finish off Mission Bay in their previous meeting back in January of 2023 and fell 30-27. Can Hilltop avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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