The Saline Hornets will venture away from home to take on the Howell Highlanders at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Both squads will be entering this one on the heels of a big victory.
Saline is headed in fresh off scoring the most points they have all season. They breezed past Huron to the tune of 68-29 on Tuesday. Given the Hornets' advantage in MaxPreps' Michigan basketball rankings (they are ranked 55th, while the River Rats are ranked 462nd), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Meanwhile, Howell came tearing into Tuesday's game with five straight wins (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 13.6 points), and they left with even more momentum. They really took it to the Cobras for the full four quarters, racking up a 56-28 win. The Highlanders pushed the score to 51-18 by the end of the third, a deficit the Cobras cut but never quite recovered from.
Howell's victory was their seventh straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 15-5. They've dominated over that stretch too, winning by an average of 20.3 points. As for Saline, they have been performing well recently as they've won five of their last six matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 14-3 record this season.
Saline came up short against Howell in their previous matchup back in February of 2024, falling 52-47. Can Saline avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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