The Mapletown Maples will venture away from home to take on the Chartiers-Houston Buccaneers at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Mapletown has a tough task ahead: they'll enter the match with 21 straight losses, while Chartiers-Houston will come in with 11 straight victories.
Mapletown is headed into the game out to prove that what happened against Jefferson-Morgan last Friday (when they were outscored in every quarter) was just a minor bump in the road. Mapletown was beaten by Jefferson-Morgan 62-13. The Maples were in a tough position after the first half, with the score already sitting at 41-6.
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 Chartiers-Houston on Friday. Given that consistent dominance, it should come as no surprise that they blew Bethlehem Center out of the water with a 57-20 final score. The Buccaneers have made a habit of sweeping their opponents off the court, having now won six contests by 24 points or more this season.
Chartiers-Houston pushed their record up to 17-2 with the win, which was their fourth straight on the road. They've dominated over that stretch too, winning by an average of 36.5 points. As for Mapletown, their defeat dropped their record down to 0-12.
Mapletown was dealt a bruising 77-33 loss at the hands of Chartiers-Houston in their previous meeting back in January. That matchup was all but decided by halftime, at which point Mapletown was down 53-18.
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