The Jacksonville Cardinals will head out on the road to challenge the Seventy-First Falcons at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Both squads will be entering this one on the heels of a big victory.
With a playoff game on the line, Jacksonville rose to the challenge on Tuesday. They put the hurt on the Patriots with a sharp 80-58 win. Having run the score up that high, both teams might be doing some extra defensive drills very soon.
Jacksonville can attribute much of their success to Ra-Shawn Echols, who scored 17 points along with eight rebounds and five assists, and Amaree Barber, who scored 25 points along with five assists and five rebounds. As a matter of fact, that's the most points Barber has scored all season. The team also got some help courtesy of Michael Carlock, who dropped a double-double on ten points and ten rebounds.
Meanwhile, Seventy-First entered their tilt with Richlands with 12 consecutive wins but they'll enter their next game with 13. Seventy-First took their game at home on Tuesday with ease, bagging a 80-30 victory over Richlands. Given Seventy-First's advantage in MaxPreps' North Carolina basketball rankings (they are ranked 87th, while Richlands is ranked 420th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Jacksonville's victory was their fifth straight at home, which pushed their record up to 18-9. Those victories were due in large part to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 74.8 points per game. As for Seventy-First, their win bumped their record up to 24-2.
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