Having just played yesterday, the Millard Eagles will get right back to it and host the Piute Thunderbirds at 7:00 p.m. on Saturday. Millard has a tough task ahead: they'll enter the contest with four straight losses, while Piute will come in with four straight victories.
Millard is headed into the game out to prove that what happened against South Summit on Friday (when they were outscored in every quarter) was just a minor bump in the road. The Eagles lost 84-61 to the Wildcats. Despite running the score up even higher than they did in their prior game on Wednesday (58), the Eagles still had to take the loss.
Meanwhile, Piute didn't have too much trouble with Milford on Wednesday as they won 79-60. The Thunderbirds pushed the score to 68-36 by the end of the third, a deficit the Tigers cut but never quite recovered from.
Millard's defeat dropped their record down to 7-7. As for Piute, their win bumped their record up to 11-4.
Millard and Piute were neck-and-neck in their previous meeting back in February of 2025, but Millard came up empty-handed after a 65-64 loss. Can the Eagles avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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