Aurora has won four straight games at home (dating back to last season), while O'Neill has won four straight on the road, but those streaks won't matter much on Saturday. The Aurora Huskies will host the O'Neill Eagles at 3:00 p.m. Both are strolling into their games after big wins in their previous games.
If Aurora beats O'Neill with 53 points on Saturday, it's going to be the team's new lucky number: they've won their past two contests with that exact score. Aurora was the clear victor by a 53-32 margin over Milford on Thursday. Given the Huskies' advantage in MaxPreps' Nebraska basketball rankings (they are ranked 42nd, while the Eagles are ranked 148th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Meanwhile, a well-balanced attack led O'Neill over Ainsworth in every quarter on their way to victory on Thursday. Given that consistent dominance, it should come as no surprise that O'Neill blew Ainsworth out of the water with a 58-31 final score. The Eagles pushed the score to 45-22 by the end of the third, a deficit the Bulldogs had little chance of recovering from.
Aurora better keep an eye on Turner Heiss. He was instrumental in O'Neill's win, dropping a double-double on 23 points and 15 rebounds. Those 15 boards gave Heiss a new career-high. The team also got some help courtesy of Porter Mathews, who dropped a double-double on 12 points and 14 rebounds.
O'Neill smashed the offensive glass and finished the game with 30 offensive rebounds. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now pulled down at least eight offensive boards in 13 consecutive matchups dating back to last season.
Aurora's victory bumped their record up to 8-2. As for O'Neill, their win bumped their record up to 7-5.
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