First Baptist School and Porter-Gaud are an even 5-5 against one another since November of 2018, but not for long. The First Baptist School Hurricanes will be playing at home against the Porter-Gaud Cyclones at 7:30 p.m. on Friday. First Baptist School has insisted on making their lastthree contests complete nail-biters, turning in a record of 2-1 during that stretch of close contests.
First Baptist School pushed their score all the way to 67 last Saturday, but even that wasn't enough to win. They fell just short of Augusta Christian by a score of 70-67. Despite running the score up even higher than they did in their last game two weeks ago (56), First Baptist School still had to take the loss.
Meanwhile, Porter-Gaud had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 23 points), and they went ahead and made it three on Friday. They strolled past Pinewood Prep with points to spare, taking the game 46-31.
First Baptist School's loss dropped their record down to 5-7. As for Porter-Gaud, their win was their sixth straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 14-3.
First Baptist School beat Porter-Gaud 72-61 when the teams last played back in February of 2023. Will First Baptist School repeat their success, or does Porter-Gaud have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
