The Carmel Greyhounds and the Jennings County Panthers will round out the year against one another at at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday. Both come into the matchup bolstered by wins in their previous matches.
Carmel will bounce into Saturday's contest after beating North Central, who they had gone 1-8 against in their nine prior meetings. Carmel snuck past North Central with a 49-45 win on Friday. Given the Greyhounds' advantage in MaxPreps' Indiana basketball rankings (they are ranked 69th, while the Panthers are ranked 205th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Meanwhile, Jennings County came tearing into Thursday's game with three straight wins (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 17.3 points) and they left with even more momentum. They enjoyed a cozy 64-45 victory over the Cubs. The Panthers pushed the score to 51-29 by the end of the third, a deficit the Cubs cut but never quite recovered from.
Jennings County is on a roll lately: they've won six of their last seven matches, which provided a massive bump to their 7-5 record this season. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 56.9 points per game. As for Carmel, they now have a winning record of 6-5.
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