The Granite Hills Eagles will venture away from home to take on the El Capitan Vaqueros at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday.
It's never fun to lose, and it's even less fun to lose 77-44, which was the final score in Granite Hills' tilt against Bishop's on Saturday. While losing is never fun, the Eagles can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' California basketball rankings (they are ranked 472nd, while the Knights are ranked 163rd).
Granite Hills might have lost, but man, Jaylene Hughes was a machine: she posted 41 points. That was a full 93.2% of Granite Hills' points, marking the fourth time in a row she's earned more than a third of the team's points.
Meanwhile, El Capitan earned a 47-34 victory over Helix on Friday. That's two games straight that the Vaqueros have won by exactly 13 points.
El Capitan is on a roll lately: they've won 15 of their last 17 games, which provided a nice bump to their 21-4 record this season. As for Granite Hills, their loss dropped their record down to 11-11.
Granite Hills took a serious blow against El Capitan in their previous matchup back in January, falling 62-33. Can Granite Hills avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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