After both having extra time off, the South Fork Bulldogs and the Pine Knights will dust off their jerseys to take on one another at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday. South Fork is coming into the matchup hot, having won their last five games.
Last Thursday, even if it wasn't a dominant performance, South Fork beat Okeechobee 41-36. The 41-point effort marked the Bulldogs' lowest-scoring game of the season, but in the end it didn't matter.
Meanwhile, you're bound to get a positive result if you outscore your opponent every quarter, and that's exactly how it played out for Pine last Saturday. The stars were shining brightly for them in a 68-54 win over Boca Raton Christian. Given the Knights' advantage in MaxPreps' Florida basketball rankings (they are ranked 246th, while the Blazers are ranked 552nd), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Pine is on a roll lately: they've won four of their last five contests, which provided a nice bump to their 9-3 record this season. As for South Fork, their victory was their third straight at home, which pushed their record up to 8-3.
South Fork beat Pine 51-42 when the teams last played two weeks ago. Will South Fork repeat their success, or does Pine have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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