Randolph is 10-0 against Gowanda since December of 2017, and they'll have a chance to extend that success on Thursday. The Randolph Cardinals will head out on the road to square off against the Gowanda Panthers at 7:30 p.m. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Randolph has three straight wins, Gowanda has four straight losses), but none of that matters once you're on the field.
Randolph put the finishing touches on their ninth blowout victory of the season on Monday. They really took it to Falconer for the full four quarters, racking up a 51-18 win at home. The matchup was pretty much decided by the half, when the score had already reached 28-8.
Randolph found their leader in underclassman Skylar Herington, who scored 26 points along with six rebounds. That makes it three consecutive games in which Herington has scored at least a third of Randolph's points. Another player making a difference was Zoey Dickerson, who scored six points along with five rebounds and four steals.
Meanwhile, it's never fun to lose, and it's even less fun to lose 75-28, which was the final score in Gowanda's tilt against Randolph back in January. Gowanda was in a tough position after the first half, with the score already sitting at 47-13.
Randolph is on a roll lately: they've won seven of their last nine games, which provided a nice bump to their 11-6 record this season. As for Gowanda, their defeat was their 13th straight on the road dating back to last season, which dropped their record down to 1-4.
Everything came up roses for Randolph against Gowanda when the teams last played back in January as the squad secured a 75-28 victory. With Randolph ahead 47-13 at the half, the matchup was all but over already.