River View is 1-7 against Mabton since December of 2014 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Friday. The River View Panthers will head out on the road to challenge the Mabton Vikings at 5:30 p.m. The two teams are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.
River View is headed in fresh off scoring the most points they have all season. They blew past Granger 48-27 on Tuesday. For those keeping track at home, that's the biggest win the Panthers have posted since December 13, 2024.
Meanwhile, Mabton had already won 13 in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 40.7 points) and they went ahead and made it 14 on Saturday. They claimed a resounding 73-42 victory over the Jaguars. Given the Vikings' advantage in MaxPreps' Washington basketball rankings (they are ranked 58th, while the Jaguars are ranked 220th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Mabton's win was their seventh straight at home, which pushed their record up to 16-1. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 72.4 points per game. As for River View, their victory bumped their record up to 5-10.
River View took a serious blow against Mabton when the teams last played two weeks ago, falling 59-13. Can River View avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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