Hillside is 8-2 against Chapel Hill since January of 2018, and they'll have a chance to extend that success  on Friday. The Hillside Hornets will head out on the road to  square off against  the Chapel Hill Tigers at 5:30  p.m. Both squads will be entering this one on the heels of a big victory.
 Winning is just a little bit easier when  you work as a team to  rack up nine more assists than your opponent, a fact Hillside proved  on Wednesday. They blew past Jordan 62-24 at home. Given Hillside's advantage  in MaxPreps' North Carolina basketball rankings  (they are ranked 84th, while Jordan is ranked 221st), the result  wasn't entirely unexpected.
 It was another big night for  Samiyah Barker, who  scored 21 points. That makes it four consecutive games in which  she has scored at least a third of Hillside's points.  Madison Malone was another key contributor,  dropping  a double-double on ten points and ten  rebounds.
 Meanwhile, Chapel Hill had already won 12 in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 34.1 points), and they went ahead and made it 13 on Wednesday. They claimed a resounding  62-25 win over East Chapel Hill at home. Chapel Hill pushed the score to  58-13 by the end of the third, a deficit East Chapel Hill cut but never quite recovered from.
 Multiple players turned in solid performances to lead Chapel Hill to victory, but perhaps none more so than   Ashton Beale, who  scored 14 points along with two  steals. Beale hasn't dropped below two  steals for five straight games. The team also got some help courtesy of  Scarlett Gilner, who  scored ten points along with four  steals.
 Hillside has  been performing  incredibly well recently as they've  won 13 of their last 15 matchups,  which provided a nice bump to their 18-7 record  this season. As for Chapel Hill, their win was  their 12th straight at home dating back to last season, which  pushed their record up to 21-4.
This contest  is one where the number of possessions is likely to be a big factor:  Hillside  have been smashing the glass this season,  having  averaged 32.2  rebounds per game. However, it's not like Chapel Hill struggles in that department as   they've been averaging 36.4  rebounds per game. Given these competing strengths, it'll be interesting to see how their clash plays out.
 Hillside was dealt a bruising  78-46 loss at the hands of Chapel Hill in their previous matchup  last Tuesday. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of  Chapel Hill's  Laynie Smith, who  dropped  a double-double on 23 points and 11  rebounds. Now that Hillside knows the damage she can cause, will they be able to stop her this time? There's only one way to find out.
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