The Salado Eagles will square off against the Yates Lions at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday. Both teams are coming into the contest red-hot, with Salado sitting on five straight wins and Yates on ten.
It can be hard to translate regular season success to the playoffs, but Salado had no problem doing just that on Monday. They walked away with a 68-59 win over the Cougars. Given Salado's advantage in MaxPreps' Texas basketball rankings (they are ranked 182nd, while Jarrell is ranked 379th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Meanwhile, Yates didn't have too much trouble with Smithville on the road on Monday as they won 56-37.
Salado has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won eight of their last nine matches, which provided a nice bump to their 22-12 record this season. As for Yates, their win bumped their record up to 12-3.
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