Lone Oak is 0-10 against Commerce since January of 2018 but things could change on Friday. The Lone Oak Buffaloes will venture away from home to square off against the Commerce Tigers at 7:30 p.m. Expect the scorekeeper to be kept busy: if their previous games are any indication, both will really light up the scoreboard.
On Tuesday, Lone Oak didn't have too much trouble with Winnsboro as they won 55-36. The victory made it back-to-back wins for the Buffaloes.
Meanwhile, Commerce had already won four in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 42.3 points) and they went ahead and made it five on Tuesday. They walked away with an 83-70 win over the Mustangs. The Tigers pushed the score to 62-38 by the end of the third, a deficit the Mustangs cut but never quite recovered from.
Lone Oak is on a roll lately: they've won five of their last six matches, which provided a massive bump to their 16-12 record this season. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 57.5 points per game. As for Commerce, they pushed their record up to 18-7 with the victory, which was their fourth straight on the road.
Lone Oak came up short against Commerce in their previous meeting back in December of 2024, falling 56-45. Can Lone Oak avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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