The Profile Patriots will venture away from home to challenge the Littleton Crusaders at 6:30 p.m. on Friday. Given that the two teams suffered a loss in their last games, they both have a little extra motivation heading into this match.
Profile easily dispatched Blue Mountain on Monday, but unfortunately both the margin and the ultimate result were a different story in this one. Profile fell just short of Woodsville by a score of 42-39 on Wednesday. While losing is never fun, the Patriots can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' New Hampshire basketball rankings (they are ranked 50th, while the Engineers are ranked first).
Littleton has been a dominant force so far, but they're in the middle of a mini-slump at the moment. They were five points away from ending the streak, but they lost a 64-59 heartbreaker at the hands of Colebrook Academy. Despite running the score up even higher than they did in their prior game on Friday (58), the Crusaders still had to take the loss.
Littleton's loss dropped their record down to 13-3. As for Profile, they have traveled a rocky road recently having lost four of their last five games, which has put a noticeable dent in their 6-10 record this season.
Profile came up short against Littleton in their previous matchup back in January, falling 59-50. Can Profile avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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