Lampeter-Strasburg has won three straight games at home, while Conestoga has won three straight on the road, but those streaks won't matter much on Friday. The Lampeter-Strasburg Pioneers will welcome the Conestoga Pioneers at 5:30 p.m. Lampeter-Strasburg is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 58.2 points per game this season.
Last Friday, Lampeter-Strasburg didn't have too much breathing room in their matchup against Donegal, but they still walked away with a 59-54 victory. Given the Pioneers' advantage in MaxPreps' Pennsylvania basketball rankings (they are ranked 75th, while the Indians are ranked 464th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Lampeter-Strasburg had a senior duo take command as Chase Smucker went 8 for 20 on his way to 25 points and Jared Hostetter went 5 of 8 on his way to 12 points and four steals. That makes it three consecutive games in which Smucker has scored at least a third of Lampeter-Strasburg's points. The team also got some help courtesy of Chase Messinger, who posted seven points.
Meanwhile, Conestoga earned a 47-39 win over Garnet Valley on Thursday. The 47-point effort marked the Pioneers' lowest-scoring contest of the season, but in the end it didn't matter.
Lampeter-Strasburg's victory bumped their record up to 7-1. As for Conestoga, their win bumped their record up to 6-1.
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