The Cathedral Phantoms will head out on the road to take on the Bishop Amat Lancers at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Cathedral has now lost seven straight, leaving the team hunting for their first win since December 30.
Last Friday, Cathedral came up short against Bosco Tech and fell 71-60. While losing is never fun, the Phantoms can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' California basketball rankings (they are ranked 944th, while the Tigers are ranked 364th).
Meanwhile, even if it wasn't a dominant performance, Bishop Amat beat Bosco Tech 48-44 on Wednesday. The 48-point effort marked the Lancers' lowest-scoring match of the season, but in the end it didn't matter.
Cathedral's loss dropped their record down to 8-17. As for Bishop Amat, they are on a roll lately: they've won seven of their last eight games, which provided a nice bump to their 21-5 record this season.
Cathedral was dealt a bruising 71-35 defeat at the hands of Bishop Amat when the teams last played two weeks ago. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Bishop Amat's Vince Diaz, who went 7 for 11 from beyond the arc on his way to 23 points. Now that Cathedral knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? There's only one way to find out.
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