A feisty cat fight is on tap when the Cheltenham Panthers challenge the Lower Moreland Lions at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday... Expect the scorekeeper to be kept busy: if their previous games are any indication, the two teams will really light up the scoreboard.
Lower Moreland will be up against a hot Cheltenham team: the squad just extended their winning streak to three. Cheltenham walked away with a 59-50 victory over East on Saturday. Given the Panthers' advantage in MaxPreps' Pennsylvania basketball rankings (they are ranked 60th, while the Vikings are ranked 324th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Meanwhile, Lower Moreland had already won five in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 10.6 points) and they went ahead and made it six on Tuesday. Everything went their way against the Indians as they made off with a 61-40 win.
Lower Moreland's victory was their fifth straight at home, which pushed their record up to 9-6. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 58.8 points per game. As for Cheltenham, their win bumped their record up to 12-2.
Cheltenham beat Lower Moreland 58-49 when the teams last played back in December of 2024. The rematch might be a little tougher for Cheltenham since the team 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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