Edgar and Marathon are an even 5-5 against one another since January of 2020, but not for long. The Edgar Wildcats will be playing at home against the Marathon Red Raiders at 7:15 p.m. on Friday. Expect the scorekeeper to be kept busy: if their previous games are any indication, the two teams will really light up the scoreboard.
Edgar played in conference for the first time on Tuesday and they got just the result they we're looking for. They walked away with a 60-52 win over Newman. The victory made it back-to-back wins for the Wildcats.
Meanwhile, Marathon unfortunately witnessed the end of their seven-game winning streak on Tuesday. They fell just short of Auburndale by a score of 72-69. Despite running the score up even higher than they did in their prior game on Friday (64), the Red Raiders still had to take the loss.
Edgar's victory bumped their record up to 5-7. As for Marathon, their defeat was their first in the conference, dropping their conference record down to 3-1 and their overall record down to 8-4.
Edgar was taken down by Marathon 71-44 when the teams last played back in February of 2024. Can Edgar avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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