Gateway and Harmony are an even 5-5 against one another since January of 2020, but not for long. The Gateway Panthers will challenge the Harmony Longhorns at 7:00 p.m. on Monday. Gateway has been getting the ball to fall more lately as they've increased their point totals each of their last three games.
Having struggled with three defeats in a row, Gateway turned things around against Celebration on Thursday. They escaped with a win against the Storm by the margin of a single free throw, 51-50.
Meanwhile, Harmony waltzed into their match on Friday with three straight wins... but they left with four. They put the hurt on the Panthers with a sharp 62-40 win. Given the Longhorns' advantage in MaxPreps' Florida basketball rankings (they are ranked 98th, while the Panthers are ranked 600th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Harmony pushed their record up to 15-7 with the victory, which was their fourth straight on the road. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 57.3 points per game. As for Gateway, their win bumped their record up to 8-10.
Gateway lost to Harmony on the road by a decisive 65-46 margin in their previous matchup last Friday. Can Gateway avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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