Slaton is 1-9 against Shallowater since December of 2018 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Friday. The Slaton Tigers will head out on the road to challenge the Shallowater Mustangs at 6:15 p.m. Both squads will be entering this one on the heels of a big victory.
Slaton can't be too worried about heading out to take on Shallowater: they just beat Idalou at home, who had been dominant on their own court up to that point. Everything went Slaton's way against Idalou on Tuesday as Slaton made off with a 48-26 victory. The win was all the more spectacular given the Tigers' disadvantage in MaxPreps' Texas basketball rankings (they are ranked 284th, while the Wildcats are ranked 96th).
Meanwhile, Shallowater had already won 15 in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 29.7 points) and they went ahead and made it 16 on Tuesday. They put the hurt on the Chieftans with a sharp 70-44 victory.
Shallowater pushed their record up to 23-8 with the win, which was their seventh straight on the road. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 63.0 points per game. As for Slaton, they have been performing well recently as they've won five of their last six contests, which provided a massive bump to their 15-10 record this season.
Slaton came up short against Shallowater in their previous matchup on January 7th, falling 48-37. Can Slaton avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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