The Everett Warriors will challenge the McConnellsburg Spartans at 7:15 p.m. on Tuesday. Both teams are coming into the matchup red-hot, with Everett sitting on six straight wins and McConnellsburg on 16.
Everett will bounce into Tuesday's game after beating Southern Fulton, who they had gone 2-7 against in their nine prior meetings. Everett really took it to Southern Fulton for the full four quarters, racking up a 63-36 victory. The Warriors pushed the score to 49-28 by the end of the third, a deficit the Indians had little chance of recovering from.
Meanwhile, McConnellsburg earned a 56-43 win over Mount Union on Monday. Given the Spartans' advantage in MaxPreps' Pennsylvania basketball rankings (they are ranked 137th, while the Trojans are ranked 565th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Everett better focus on containing Hoyt Glenn and Brayden Ramsey as the pair were huge in McConnellsburg's win. Glenn dropped a double-double on 15 points and ten steals, while Ramsey posted 20 points along with six boards and three blocks. Those ten steals gave Glenn a new career-high. Another player making a difference was Dominic Jefferson, who earned nine points.
Everett is on a roll lately: they've won eight of their last nine contests, which provided a nice bump to their 11-7 record this season. The wins came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 55.6 points per game. As for McConnellsburg, they pushed their record up to 17-1 with the victory, which was their 17th straight on the road dating back to last season.
Everett was taken down by McConnellsburg 49-19 when the teams last played back in January. Can Everett avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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