Preview: Uniontown Red Raiders vs. Lincoln Park Performing Arts
The Uniontown Red Raiders will square off against Lincoln Park Performing Arts at TBD on Saturday. 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 Uniontown had no problem doing just that on Wednesday. They blew past the Trojans 59-37. Winning may never get old, but Uniontown sure is getting used to it with their sixth in a row.
Tori Grooms continued his habit of posting crazy stat lines, scoring 16 points along with five assists and five rebounds. Calvin Winfrey was another key contributor, scoring 16 points.
Meanwhile, Lincoln Park Performing Arts came tearing into Wednesday's match with 11 straight wins (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 31.9 points) and they left with even more momentum. They put the hurt on Knoch with a sharp 81-58 victory. Given Lincoln Park Performing Arts' advantage in MaxPreps' Pennsylvania basketball rankings (they are ranked 21st, while Knoch is ranked 114th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Uniontown's victory bumped their record up to 21-3. As for Lincoln Park Performing Arts, they are on a roll lately: they've won 15 of their last 16 games, which provided a nice bump to their 20-3 record this season.
Uniontown might still be hurting after the 85-64 loss they got from Lincoln Park Performing Arts when the teams last played back in March of 2023. That contest was all but decided by halftime, at which point Uniontown was down 53-29.
Article generated by infoSentience based on data entered on MaxPreps
