The Lutheran West Longhorns and the Villa Angela-St. Joseph Vikings will compete for holiday cheer at 4:15 p.m. on Sunday. Expect the scorekeeper to be kept busy: if their previous games are any indication, the two teams will really light up the scoreboard.
Lutheran West is probably headed into the game with a chip on their shoulder considering Archbishop Hoban just ended the team's three-game winning streak on Friday. They took a 76-64 hit to the loss column at the hands of the Knights. Despite running the score up even higher than they did in their prior game on Tuesday (63), the Longhorns still had to take the loss.
Meanwhile, in a tight match that could have gone either way, Villa Angela-St. Joseph made off with a 72-71 victory over Euclid. Given the Vikings' advantage in MaxPreps' Ohio basketball rankings (they are ranked 128th, while the Panthers are ranked 307th), the result on Friday wasn't entirely unexpected.
The win made it two in a row for Villa Angela-St. Joseph and bumps their season record up to 4-2. As for Lutheran West, their defeat ended a seven-game streak of away wins dating back to last season and brought them to 4-2.
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