Le Mars and Spirit Lake are an even 5-5 against one another since February of 2016, but not for long. After both having extra time off, the two teams will shake off the cobwebs and take on one another on Thursday. Le Mars is looking for their season's first victory.
Le Mars is headed in fresh off scoring the most points they have all season. They fell to Sioux City North 69-64. Despite running the score up even higher than they did in their prior game two weeks ago (55), the Bulldogs still had to take the loss.
Meanwhile, there's no place like home for Spirit Lake, who bounced back after a loss on the road last Thursday. Everything went their way against Cherokee Washington last Friday as Spirit Lake made off with a 65-44 win. For those keeping track at home, that's the biggest victory the Indians have posted since January 11th.
Spirit Lake's win ended a six-game drought at home dating back to last season and bumped them up to 2-2. As for Le Mars, their loss dropped their record down to 0-5.
Le Mars didn't have too much breathing room in their contest against Spirit Lake in their previous meeting back in November of 2023, but they still walked away with a 74-70 victory. The rematch might be a little tougher for Le Mars since the team won't have the home-court advantage this time around. We'll see if the change in venue makes a difference.
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