Basketball Recap: East Carter Gets Big Victory over Higher-Ranked Elliott County

East Carter won the last time they faced Elliott County and things went their way on Tuesday too. The East Carter Raiders snuck past the Elliott County Lions with a 42-38 victory. The win was all the more spectacular given the Raiders' disadvantage in MaxPreps' Kentucky basketball rankings (they are ranked 238th, while the Lions are ranked 97th).

Raiders

Previous 2 Games

01/28/25 vs Elliott County	42-38
01/24/25 vs West Carter	46-24

The victory made it two in a row for East Carter and bumps their season record up to 5-8. As for Elliott County, this is the second loss in a row for them and nudges their season record down to 10-5.

East Carter has already played their next contest (against Greenup County), but no score has been uploaded at the time of writing. Elliott County will welcome West Carter at 7:30 p.m. on Friday. Elliott County is facing West Carter at the right time seeing as West Carter is stuck on a seven-game losing streak.