Basketball Recap: Belle Plaine Piles Up the Points Against New Richland-Hartland-Ellendale-Geneva

It was a proper cat-fight when Belle Plaine took on New Richland-Hartland-Ellendale-Geneva on Tuesday. The Belle Plaine Tigers took their contest with ease, bagging a 92-49 victory over the New Richland-Hartland-Ellendale-Geneva Panthers. Given the Tigers' advantage in MaxPreps' Minnesota basketball rankings (they are ranked 60th, while the Panthers are ranked 381st), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.

Belle Plaine has been performing well recently as they've won six of their last eight matchups. That's provided a nice bump to their 18-7 record this season. The wins came thanks in part to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 80.8 points over those games. New Richland-Hartland-Ellendale-Geneva is on a three-game losing streak that has dropped them down to 4-23.

Belle Plaine didn't take long to hit the court again: they've already played their next game, a 63-49 win against Lake Crystal-Wellcome Memorial on the 6th. New Richland-Hartland-Ellendale-Geneva does not have any more games scheduled as of now.