Basketball Game Preview: Allendale-Fairfax Tigers vs. Bridges Prep Buccaneers

By Team Reports Jan 19, 2024, 6:47am

Preview: Allendale-Fairfax Tigers vs. Bridges Prep Buccaneers

After three games on the road, Allendale-Fairfax is heading back home. They will take on the Bridges Prep Buccaneers at 5:00 p.m. on Friday. Allendale-Fairfax will have to bring their A-game into this one, as they are staring down a pretty big deficit in the MaxPreps South Carolina Rankings (they are ranked 250th, while Bridges Prep is ranked 99th).

Last Saturday, Allendale-Fairfax came up short against Manning and fell 53-44.

Meanwhile, Bridges Prep stacked a seventh blowout win onto their ever-increasing hoard on Tuesday. They breezed by Royal Live Oaks Academy on the road to the tune of 76-22. For those keeping track at home, that's the biggest victory Bridges Prep has posted since November 17, 2023.

Multiple players turned in solid performances to lead Bridges Prep to victory, but perhaps none more so than X Butler, who scored 20 points. As a matter of fact, that's the most points Butler has scored all season. The team also got some help courtesy of Q Young, who scored 18 points.

Allendale-Fairfax bumped their record down to 3-13 with that loss, which was their seventh straight on the road. As for Bridges Prep, they have been performing incredibly well recently as they've won seven of their last eight contests, which provided a nice bump to their 10-2 record this season.

Allendale-Fairfax didn't have too much breathing room in their contest against Bridges Prep in their previous matchup back in February of 2023, but they still walked away with a 61-55 win. Does Allendale-Fairfax have another victory up their sleeve, or will Bridges Prep turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.