The Lovejoy Wildcats will head out on the road to square off against the Dutchtown Bulldogs at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday. Lovejoy has a tough task ahead: they'll enter the contest with five straight losses, while Dutchtown will come in with 16 straight victories.
On Monday, Lovejoy was just a bucket shy of victory and fell 43-42 to Midtown. While losing is never fun, the Wildcats can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Georgia basketball rankings (they are ranked 223rd, while the Knights are ranked 88th).
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Dutchtown). Everything went their way against Langston Hughes on Saturday as Dutchtown made off with a 72-50 win. The Bulldogs pushed the score to 65-30 by the end of the third, a deficit the Panthers cut but never quite recovered from.
Dutchtown pushed their record up to 16-2 with the victory, which was their fourth straight at home. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 58.3 points per game. As for Lovejoy, they now have a losing record at 9-10.
Lovejoy lost to Dutchtown on the road by a decisive 71-53 margin when the teams last played back in December of 2024. Can Lovejoy avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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