The Norwood Pirates will venture away from home to challenge the Mountain Grove Panthers at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Norwood is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 70.5 points per game this season.
Mountain Grove will be up against a hot Norwood team: the squad just extended their winning streak to three. Norwood came out on top against Seymour by a score of 67-55 on Tuesday. Given the Pirates' advantage in MaxPreps' Missouri basketball rankings (they are ranked 33rd, while the Tigers are ranked 195th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Cooper Vaughan continued his habit of posting crazy stat lines, dropping a double-double on 26 points and 13 boards. He is trending in the right direction considering he's improved his point production for three straight games. Another player making a difference was Gunner Bradshaw, who went 6 for 9 en route to 13 points and eight rebounds.
Meanwhile, Mountain Grove earned a 74-65 win over Gainesville on Friday.
Norwood pushed their record up to 16-1 with the victory, which was their seventh straight on the road. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 74.3 points per game. As for Mountain Grove, they are on a roll lately: they've won three of their last four matches, which provided a nice bump to their 7-8 record this season.
Norwood was able to grind out a solid win over Mountain Grove when the teams last played back in January of 2022, winning 66-58. Will Norwood repeat their success, or does Mountain Grove have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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