Plant City hasn't had much luck against Newsome recently, but that could start to change on Friday. The Plant City Raiders are taking a road trip to square off against the Newsome Wolves at 8:00 p.m. The two teams are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.
Plant City is headed into the game after thoroughly thrashing Leto: they outscored them in every quarter. Given that consistent dominance, it should come as no surprise that Plant City blew Leto out of the water with a 52-11 final score. The contest was all but wrapped up at the end of the third, by which point the Raiders had established a 36 point advantage.
| 12/11/24 vs Leto | 3 |
| 12/06/24 vs Riverview | 2 |
| 12/03/24 @ Spoto | 2 |
| 01/10/24 @ Freedom | 2 |
| 01/29/24 @ Mulberry | 1 |
Multiple players turned in solid performances to lead Plant City to victory, but perhaps none more so than Maritza Vaquero, who posted 12 points and four steals. The dominant performance also gave Vaquero a new career-high in assists (three). Samari Ingram was another key player, putting up nine points.
Meanwhile, Newsome had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 20.5 points) and they went ahead and made it three on Wednesday. They simply couldn't be stopped as they easily beat the Ravens 39-4. The Wolves have made a habit of sweeping their opponents off the court, having now won three matches by 30 points or more this season.
Plant City's win bumped their record up to 3-5. As for Newsome, the victory got them back to even at 4-4.
Plant City was dealt a bruising 47-13 loss at the hands of Newsome in their previous meeting back in November of 2023. Can Plant City avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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