The Salem Spartans will head out on the road to take on the Blacksburg Bruins at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Expect the scorekeeper to be kept busy: if their previous games are any indication, both will really light up the scoreboard.
Blacksburg will be up against a hot Salem squad: the team just extended their winning streak to four. Salem strolled past Christiansburg with points to spare on Saturday, taking the game 74-55. The Spartans pushed the score to 66-41 by the end of the third, a deficit the Blue Demons cut but never quite recovered from.
Meanwhile, Blacksburg was able to grind out a solid win over Pulaski County on Friday, taking the game 62-54.
Blacksburg's victory bumped their record up to 4-11. As for Salem, they pushed their record up to 12-2 with the win, which was their seventh straight on the road.
Everything went Salem's way against Blacksburg in their previous meeting on January 4th, as Salem made off with a 70-44 victory. The rematch might be a little tougher for Salem since the squad won't have the home-court advantage this time around. We'll see if the change in venue makes a difference.
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