Simmons and Leflore County are an even 5-5 against one another since February of 2018, but not for long. The Simmons Blue Devils will take on the Leflore County Tigers in a holiday battle at at 7:30 p.m. on Friday. Simmons is looking for their season's first win.
Simmons is headed in fresh off scoring the most points they have all season. They took a 73-63 hit to the loss column at the hands of Humphreys County on Tuesday. Despite running the score up even higher than they did in their prior game on Friday (57), the Blue Devils still had to take the loss.
12/17/24 @ Humphreys County | 31 |
12/13/24 @ Riverside | 11 |
12/10/24 vs Leflore County | 14 |
Despite the loss, Simmons got top-tier performance from Prentavis Madison, who went 14 of 27 on his way to 31 points and four steals. With that strong performance, Madison is now averaging an impressive 18.7 points per game. The team also got some help courtesy of Lebron Morris, who went 5 of 11 on his way to 10 points and eight rebounds.
Meanwhile, Leflore County unfortunately witnessed the end of their four-game winning streak on Thursday. They fell just short of Kosciusko by a score of 60-57.
Simmons' defeat dropped their record down to 0-8. As for Leflore County, their loss dropped their record down to 10-4.
Simmons came up short against Leflore County in their previous meeting last Tuesday, falling 63-56. Can Simmons avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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