The Tri-Cities Bulldogs will face off against the Hillgrove Hawks at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Expect the scorekeeper to be kept busy: if their previous games are any indication, these teams will really light up the scoreboard.
Tri-Cities heads into the matchup have just come up short against nationally ranked McEachern (Tri-Cities was ranked 38th at the time). The Bulldogs lost 87-67 to the Indians on Saturday. Despite running the score up even higher than they did in their prior game two weeks ago (65), the Bulldogs still had to take the loss.
Jalan Wingfield
| 11/22/25 @ McEachern | 18 |
| 11/15/25 vs Wheeler | 18 |
| 03/07/25 vs Woodward Academy | 20 |
Defeat or not, Tri-Cities got some senior leadership from Jalan Wingfield and Aden Saunders. Wingfield dropped a double-double with 18 points and 13 rebounds, while Saunders shot 46% from the field en route to 18 points and four steals. The game was Wingfield's third in a row with at least 18 points. The team also got some help courtesy of Tre Keith, who posted 16 points.
Meanwhile, Hillgrove entered their tilt with Decatur on Wednesday with two consecutive wins but they'll enter their next game with three. They came out on top against the Bulldogs by a score of 61-48.
This is the second loss in a row for Tri-Cities and nudges their season record down to 0-2. Those losses can't be blamed on the team's offensive performance across that stretch, as they've averaged 66.0 points this season. As for Hillgrove, their victory bumped their record up to 3-1.
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