The Ponca City Wildcats will head out on the road to square off against the Union Redhawks at 6:30 p.m. on Friday.
Last Tuesday, Ponca City came up short against Muskogee and fell 37-24. The Wildcats haven't had much luck with the Roughers recently, as the team's come up short the last two times they've met.
Meanwhile, Union had already won four in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 23.5 points) and they went ahead and made it five on Thursday. They escaped with a win against the Trojans by the margin of a single free throw, 64-63. The win was all the more spectacular given the Redhawks' disadvantage in MaxPreps' Oklahoma basketball rankings (they are ranked 36th, while the Trojans are ranked third).
Union is also on a roll lately: they've won seven of their last eight contests, which provided a nice bump to their 15-7 record this season. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 60.1 points per game. As for Ponca City, their defeat dropped their record down to 6-14.
Ponca City was taken down by Union 59-30 when the teams last played back in January. Can Ponca City avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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