Preview: West Campus Warriors vs. Marysville Indians
West Campus is 8-0 against Marysville since January of 2015, and they'll have a chance to extend that success on Thursday. The West Campus Warriors will face off against the Marysville Indians at 7:00 p.m. Both squads will be entering this one on the heels of a big victory.
It can be hard to translate regular season success to the playoffs, but West Campus had no problem doing just that on Tuesday. They put the hurt on the Red Hawks with a sharp 56-30 victory. The win was nothing new for West Campus as they're now sitting on ten straight.
Leilani Edinburgh and Loismary Justice were among the main playmakers for West Campus as the former scored 21 points and the latter scored 22 points. That makes it three consecutive games in which Edinburgh has scored at least a third of West Campus' points. Esabel Otsuji was another key contributor, scoring 13 points.
Meanwhile, Marysville entered their tilt with Dixon with 12 consecutive wins but they'll enter their next game with 13. Marysville simply couldn't be stopped on Tuesday as they easily beat Dixon 70-15 at home. Given Marysville's advantage in MaxPreps' California basketball rankings (they are ranked 161st, while Dixon is ranked 694th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Marysville can attribute much of their success to Abigail Pietz, who scored 24 points along with eight assists and four steals, and Demi Boykin, who dropped a double-double on 22 points and ten steals. As a matter of fact, that's the most points Pietz has scored all season. The team also got some help courtesy of Krystal Briggs, who scored 11 points along with five rebounds and five steals.
West Campus pushed their record up to 21-6 with that win, which was their 15th straight at home dating back to last season. Those victories were due in large part to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 54.9 points per game. As for Marysville, they are on a roll lately: they've won 17 of their last 18 matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 23-4 record this season.
Everything came up roses for West Campus against Marysville when the teams last played back in February of 2018 as the squad secured a 65-13 victory. In that contest, West Campus amassed a halftime lead of 32-8, an impressive feat they'll look to repeat on Thursday.
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