After flying high against Corrigan-Camden last Thursday, Hemphill came back down to earth. The Hemphill Hornets received a blow on Friday as they fell 53-38 to the Shelbyville Dragons. While losing is never fun, the Hornets can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Texas basketball rankings (they are ranked 1057th, while the Dragons are ranked 276th).
Hemphill now has a losing record at 12-13. As for Shelbyville, their victory was their seventh straight on the road dating back to last season, which pushed their record up to 20-3.
Hemphill has already played their next matchup (against Chireno), but no score has been uploaded at the time of writing. Shelbyville will challenge Woden at 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Woden has been getting the ball to fall more lately as they've increased their point totals each of their last three games.
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