Preview: Granada Bobcats vs. McClave Cardinals
The Granada Bobcats will face off against the McClave Cardinals at 4:20 p.m. on Thursday. Granada is no doubt hoping to put an end to a nine-game streak of away losses.
With a playoff game on the line, Granada rose to the challenge on Tuesday. They came out on top against the Wolverines by a score of 56-48.
Maddox Coleman continued his habit of posting crazy stat lines, scoring 25 points. That makes it seven consecutive games in which he has scored at least a third of Granada's points. Another player making a difference was Jonus Guevara, who scored 12 points.
Meanwhile, McClave had already won nine in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 28 points), and they went ahead and made it ten on Saturday. They took down Sierra Grande 70-52. McClave pushed the score to 57-34 by the end of the third, a deficit Sierra Grande cut but never quite recovered from.
Multiple players turned in solid performances to lead McClave to victory, but perhaps none more so than Conner Forgue, who scored 16 points. Tuff Kelley was another key contributor, almost dropping a double-double on 12 points and nine rebounds.
Granada's win bumped their record up to 7-13. As for McClave, their victory bumped their record up to 15-4.
Granada took a serious blow against McClave in their previous meeting back in January, falling 76-41. That match was all but decided by halftime, at which point Granada was down 46-25.
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