Ashe County hasn't had much luck against Watauga recently, but that could start to change on Friday. The Ashe County Huskies will venture away from home to take on the Watauga Pioneers at 6:30 p.m. Keep an eye on the score for this one: the two teams posted some lofty point totals in their previous games.
Ashe County is headed into Friday's contest looking for a big change in momentum after dropping their tenth straight game on Monday. They took a 75-63 hit to the loss column at the hands of South Caldwell. While losing is never fun, the Huskies can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' North Carolina basketball rankings (they are ranked 213th, while the Spartans are ranked 71st).
Meanwhile, Watauga had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 13.5 points) and they went ahead and made it three on Wednesday. They came within five points of losing the streak, but they secured a 58-53 W against the Patriots. The score was all tied up 28-28 at the break, but the Pioneers were the better team in the second half.
Watauga pushed their record up to 16-5 with the win, which was their ninth straight on the road. As for Ashe County, their defeat dropped their record down to 9-13.
Ashe County was dealt a bruising 86-48 loss at the hands of Watauga when the teams last played back in January. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Watauga's Kate Sears, who shot 7-for-12 from beyond the arc and dropped a triple-double with 31 points, ten boards, and 14 assists. Now that Ashe County knows the damage she can cause, will they be able to stop her this time? There's only one way to find out.
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