The McBain Ramblers will head out to take on the Evart Wildcats at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Both squads will be entering this one on the heels of a big victory.
Evart will be up against a hot McBain team: the squad just extended their winning streak to four. McBain breezed past Pine River Area to the tune of 68-40 on Wednesday. Given the Ramblers' advantage in MaxPreps' Michigan basketball rankings (they are ranked 70th, while the Bucks are ranked 294th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Meanwhile, Evart had already won seven in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 15.6 points) and they went ahead and made it eight on Wednesday. They took their contest with ease, bagging a 46-3 victory over the Hornets.
Evart pushed their record up to 21-2 with the win, which was their 19th straight at home dating back to last season. Those victories came thanks in part to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 54.5 points over those games. As for McBain, their victory bumped their record up to 16-4.
McBain came up short against Evart when the teams last played back in February, falling 47-38. Can McBain avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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