Nueva Esperanza will be home for the holidays to greet the Freire Charter Dragon at 3:15 p.m. on Tuesday. Both teams took a loss in their last game, so they'll have plenty of motivation to get the 'W'.
Last Tuesday, Nueva Esperanza suffered a tough 64-39 loss at the hands of Thomas A. Edison. While losing is never fun, Nueva Esperanza can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Pennsylvania basketball rankings (they are ranked 550th, while Thomas A. Edison is ranked 240th).
Meanwhile, Freire Charter was just a bucket shy of victory on Tuesday and fell 54-53 to Hill Freedman World Academy. Freire Charter has now taken an 'L' in back-to-back games.
Nueva Esperanza now has a losing record at 1-2. As for Freire Charter, their defeat was their ninth straight at home dating back to last season, which bumped their record down to 1-3.
