Madonna and Clay-Battelle are an even 5-5 against one another since January of 2018, but not for long. The Madonna Blue Dons will head out on the road to challenge the Clay-Battelle Cee Bees at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Expect the scorekeeper to be kept busy: if their previous games are any indication, the pair will really light up the scoreboard.
It's never fun to lose, and it's even less fun to lose 88-58, which was the final score in Madonna's tilt against Brooke on Saturday. Madonna has now taken an 'L' in back-to-back games.
Madonna might have lost, but man, Anthony Mascio was a machine: he scored 22 points. Mascio has been hot recently, having posted 15 or more points the last five times he's played. Luca Muzzi was another key contributor, scoring 15 points.
Meanwhile, Clay-Battelle had already won four in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 19.3 points), and they went ahead and made it five on Friday. They managed a 55-49 victory over Tyler. The victory was all the more spectacular given Clay-Battelle's disadvantage in MaxPreps' West Virginia basketball rankings (they are ranked 369th, while Tyler is ranked 105th).
Madonna has not been sharp recently as the team has lost three of their last four matchups, which put a noticeable dent in their 9-10 record this season. As for Clay-Battelle, their victory was their 11th straight at home dating back to last season, which pushed their record up to 16-5.
Madonna came up short against Clay-Battelle in their previous meeting back in March of 2023, falling 67-59. Can Madonna avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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