Sargent is 0-10 against Sanford since February of 2019 but things could change on Saturday. The Sargent Farmers will take on the Sanford Mustangs at 4:30 p.m. Both squads will be entering this one on the heels of a big victory.
On Friday, everything went Sargent's way against Del Norte as Sargent made off with a 55-30 victory. The Farmers pushed the score to 50-23 by the end of the third, a deficit the Tigers cut but never quite recovered from.
Meanwhile, Sanford had already won eight in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 34.1 points) and they went ahead and made it nine on Friday. They simply couldn't be stopped as they easily beat the Miners 58-4. Given the Mustangs' advantage in MaxPreps' Colorado basketball rankings (they are ranked 55th, while the Miners are ranked 219th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Sanford's win was their sixth straight at home, which pushed their record up to 13-2. Those victories came thanks to their defensive effort, having only surrendered 18.2 points per game. As for Sargent, they are on a roll lately: they've won five of their last six contests, which provided a nice bump to their 9-3 record this season.
Things could have been worse for Sargent, but things could have been a whole lot better as they took a 40-24 loss to Sanford in their previous meeting back in February of 2024. Can Sargent avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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