The Mangham Dragons will venture away from home to take on the Oak Grove Tigers at 6:00 p.m. on Friday. Both squads will be entering this one on the heels of a big victory.
Last Tuesday, Mangham was fully in charge, breezing past Beekman Charter 64-16. Given the Dragons' advantage in MaxPreps' Louisiana basketball rankings (they are ranked 142nd, while the Tigers are ranked 311th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Meanwhile, Oak Grove came tearing into Tuesday's match with five straight wins (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 36.8 points) and they left with even more momentum. They took their game with ease, bagging a 59-25 win over the Trojans.
Oak Grove pushed their record up to 13-3 with the victory, which was their fifth straight on the road. The wins came thanks to their defensive effort, having only surrendered 23.0 points per game. As for Mangham, they are on a roll lately: they've won five of their last six contests, which provided a nice bump to their 16-5 record this season.
Mangham was dealt a bruising 55-23 defeat at the hands of Oak Grove in their previous meeting back in January of 2024. Can Mangham avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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