The Aubrey Rogers Patriots will head out on the road to square off against the Gateway Eagles at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday. Both squads will be entering this one on the heels of a big victory.
Aubrey Rogers will roll into the match after a wild two-game stretch: they only put up 25 points on Monday, then bounced right back against Fort Myers on Tuesday. Aubrey Rogers claimed a resounding 66-20 victory over Fort Myers. Given the Patriots' advantage in MaxPreps' Florida basketball rankings (they are ranked 98th, while the Green Wave are ranked 398th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Meanwhile, Gateway waltzed into their contest on Tuesday with seven straight wins... but they left with eight. They breezed by the Wolfpack to the tune of 50-17. The Eagles pushed the score to 46-9 by the end of the third, a deficit the Wolfpack cut but never quite recovered from.
Gateway is on a roll lately: they've won 11 of their last 12 games, which provided a nice bump to their 18-5 record this season. Those victories came thanks to their defensive effort, having only surrendered 26.4 points per game. As for Aubrey Rogers, their win bumped their record up to 18-5.
Things could have been worse for Aubrey Rogers, but things could have been a whole lot better as they took a 56-37 loss to Gateway in their previous meeting back in February of 2024. Can Aubrey Rogers avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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