Hudson's Bay hasn't had much luck against Prairie recently, but that could start to change on Friday. It'll be Battle of the Birds when the Hudson's Bay Eagles take on the Prairie Falcons at 4:30 p.m. Given that the two teams suffered a loss in their last games, they both have a little extra motivation heading into this matchup.
Hudson's Bay is headed into Friday's game looking for a big change in momentum after dropping their 18th straight game dating back to last season two weeks ago. They took a blow against R.A. Long, falling 79-26. While losing is never fun, the Eagles can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Washington basketball rankings (they are ranked 345th, while the Lumberjacks are ranked 55th).
Meanwhile, Prairie was just a bucket shy of victory on Saturday and fell 77-76 to Jackson. Despite running the score up even higher than they did in their prior game on Friday (71), the Falcons still had to take the loss.
Hudson's Bay's loss dropped their record down to 0-7. As for Prairie, this is the second loss in a row for them and nudges their season record down to 4-5.
Hudson's Bay might still be hurting after the 60-36 defeat they got from Prairie in their previous meeting back in February of 2020. Can Hudson's Bay avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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