The Fairmont Golden Tornadoes will head out on the road to square off against the Farmville Central Jaguars at 6:00 p.m. on Friday. Expect the scorekeeper to be kept busy: if their previous games are any indication, the two teams will really light up the scoreboard.
Fairmont is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Tuesday. They strolled past Wallace-Rose Hill with points to spare, taking the game 60-44. The win made it back-to-back victories for the Golden Tornadoes.
Meanwhile, Farmville Central entered their tilt with North Pitt on Tuesday with 13 consecutive wins , and they'll enter their next game with 14. They breezed past the Panthers to the tune of 86-39. Given the Jaguars' advantage in MaxPreps' North Carolina basketball rankings (they are ranked 24th in North Carolina, while the Panthers are ranked 332nd in North Carolina), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Farmville Central's victory was their 30th straight at home dating back to last season, which pushed their record up to 21-4. Those victories came thanks in part to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 86.8 points over those games. As for Fairmont, their win bumped their record up to 16-7.
Fairmont was dealt a bruising 79-34 defeat at the hands of Farmville Central in their previous meeting back in February of 2023. That contest was all but decided by halftime, at which point Fairmont was down 51-16.
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