Hermiston is 1-9 against Chiawana since December of 2019 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Saturday. The Hermiston Bulldogs just played yesterday, but they'll still head out to face the Chiawana Riverhawks at 3:15 p.m. Expect the scorekeeper to be kept busy: if their previous games are any indication, the two teams will really light up the scoreboard.
If Hermiston beats Chiawana with 75 points on Saturday, it's going to be the team's new lucky number: they've won their past two contests with that exact score. Hermiston really took it to Pasco for the full four quarters, racking up a 75-38 win. Hermiston pushed the score to 59-20 by the end of the third, a deficit Pasco cut but never quite recovered from.
Meanwhile, you're bound to get a positive result if you outscore your opponent every quarter, and that's exactly how it played out for Chiawana on Friday. Given that consistent dominance, it should come as no surprise that they blew Walla Walla out of the water with an 88-26 final score. With the Riverhawks ahead 53-14 at the half, the game was all but over already.
The victory was the third in a row for Hermiston, bringing their record for this year to 3-0. The wins came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 79.0 points per game. As for Chiawana, the win got them back to even at 1-1.
Hermiston was dealt a bruising 98-58 loss at the hands of Chiawana when the teams last played back in February. Can Hermiston avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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