Two dominant guards in Lai Flack and Addison Reid are getting ready to go toe-to-toe. The R-S Central Hilltoppers will challenge the Hendersonville Bearcats at 6:00 p.m. on Friday. The two teams are strolling into their matches after big wins in their previous games.
R-S Central is coming into the contest on the come-up as their season has now been buoyed by two straight wins. They were the clear victor by a 49-24 margin over Chase on Tuesday. The game marked the Hilltoppers' most dominant victory of the season.
Flack was her usual excellent self, putting up 19 points. That makes it 15 consecutive games in which she has scored at least a third of R-S Central's points. Another player making a difference was Alena Jimerson, who posted eight points.
Meanwhile, Hendersonville had already won ten in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 24.2 points) and they went ahead and made it 11 on Tuesday. Everything went their way against the Panthers as they made off with a 41-16 win. The Bearcats have made a habit of sweeping their opponents off the court, having now won eight matches by 20 points or more this season.
Hendersonville pushed their record up to 13-4 with the victory, which was their fifth straight on the road. Those victories came thanks to their defensive effort, having only surrendered 28.0 points per game. As for R-S Central, they are on a roll lately: they've won three of their last four contests, which provided a nice bump to their 5-11 record this season.
R-S Central lost to Hendersonville on the road by a decisive 52-35 margin in their previous meeting back in December of 2024. Can R-S Central avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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