Yukon is 1-9 against Deer Creek since January of 2018 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Friday. The Yukon Millers are taking a road trip to challenge the Deer Creek Antlers at 7:30 p.m.
Yukon easily dispatched Elgin on Friday, but unfortunately both the margin and the ultimate result were a different story in this one. Yukon fell just short of Anadarko by a score of 38-35 on Saturday. While losing is never fun, the Millers can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Oklahoma basketball rankings (they are ranked 168th, while the Warriors are ranked 27th).
Meanwhile, Deer Creek had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 23.5 points) and they went ahead and made it three on Saturday. They walked away with a 52-44 win over the Ruf-Nex. The 52-point effort marked the Antlers' lowest-scoring match of the season, but in the end it didn't matter.
Yukon's defeat ended a four-game streak of away wins and brought them to 7-9. As for Deer Creek, they are on a roll lately: they've won six of their last seven games, which provided a nice bump to their 11-3 record this season.
Yukon couldn't quite finish off Deer Creek when the teams last played back in December of 2024 and fell 60-57. Can Yukon avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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