The Coldspring-Oakhurst Trojans will face off against the Shepherd Pirates at 8:00 a.m. on Thursday.
Last Monday, Coldspring-Oakhurst was beaten by Kountze 87-49. While losing is never fun, the Trojans can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Texas basketball rankings (they are ranked 760th, while the Lions are ranked 29th).
Meanwhile, you're bound to get a positive result if you outscore your opponent every quarter, and that's exactly how it played out for Shepherd on Tuesday. Given that consistent dominance, it should come as no surprise that they blew New Waverly out of the water with a 69-33 final score. The Pirates pushed the score to 57-25 by the end of the third, a deficit the Bulldogs had no chance of recovering from.
Shepherd has been performing well recently as they've won five of their last six matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 9-4 record this season. As for Coldspring-Oakhurst, they dropped their record down to 4-7 with the defeat, which was their third straight on the road.
Coldspring-Oakhurst might still be hurting after the 55-35 loss they got from Shepherd when the teams last played on Friday. Can Coldspring-Oakhurst avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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