The Darien Blue Wave will challenge the St. Joseph Cadets at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Expect the scorekeeper to be kept busy: if their previous games are any indication, both will really light up the scoreboard.
Darien is headed in fresh off scoring the most points they have all season. They took a 74-69 hit to the loss column at the hands of Stamford. Despite running the score up even higher than they did in their prior game on Tuesday (65), the Blue Wave still had to take the loss.
Meanwhile, St. Joseph was just a bucket shy of victory on Friday and fell 67-66 to Ridgefield. The Cadets haven't had much luck with the Tigers recently, as the team's come up short the last two times they've met.
Darien will have to contain TJ Wright as he made an impact in St. Joseph's last game. He went 13 of 22 on his way to 31 points and three steals. Wright's evening made it five games in a row in which he has scored at least ten points. The team also got some help courtesy of Lameik Black, who posted 14 points.
St. Joseph's defeat dropped their record down to 3-5. As for Darien, this is the second loss in a row for them and nudges their season record down to 3-3.
Darien couldn't quite finish off St. Joseph when the teams last played back in January of 2024 and fell 74-72. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Wright, who went 15 of 28 on his way to 38 points and five assists. Now that Darien knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? There's only one way to find out.
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