The Oak Park-River Forest Huskies will head out to square off against the Proviso East Pirates at 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday.
On Monday, Oak Park-River Forest lost to Westinghouse on the road by a 51-33 margin.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Proviso East). They blew past Zion-Benton 60-17 on Monday. Given the Pirates' advantage in MaxPreps' Illinois basketball rankings (they are ranked 265th, while the Zee-Bees are ranked 574th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Oak Park-River Forest better focus on containing Ava Kimble and Camiya Marshall as the pair were huge in Proviso East's win. Kimble went 5 of 9 en route to 16 points along with six steals and five rebounds, while Marshall went 5 for 10 on her way to 18 points and seven steals. The dominant performance gave Marshall a new career-high in steals. Amyiah Dunbar was another key player, putting up six points in addition to seven boards and three steals.
Proviso East was working as a unit and finished the game with ten assists. That's a new trend for them: they were averaging 5.7 assists per game earlier this season, but in their last 15 games they've averaged 7.
Oak Park-River Forest's loss dropped their record down to 3-19. As for Proviso East, they have been performing incredibly well recently as they've won seven of their last eight matches, which provided a nice bump to their 14-7 record this season.
Oak Park-River Forest was able to grind out a solid win over Proviso East when the teams last played back in February of 2024, winning 41-32. The rematch might be a little tougher for Oak Park-River Forest since the squad won't have the home-court advantage this time around. We'll see if the change in venue makes a difference.
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