The Claxton Tigers are taking a road trip to square off against the Appling County Pirates at 7:30 p.m. on Friday. Expect the scorekeeper to be kept busy: if their previous games are any indication, both will really light up the scoreboard.
Claxton is headed into Friday's contest looking for a big change in momentum after dropping their third straight game on Tuesday. They were three points away from ending the streak, but they lost a 70-67 heartbreaker at the hands of Portal. Despite running the score up even higher than they did in their prior game on Saturday (62), the Tigers still had to take the loss.
Appling County hasn't had quite the year their fans were hoping for to this point, but back-to-back wins may be a sign of good things to come. They skirted past Telfair County 60-58.
Claxton now has a losing record at 3-4. As for Appling County, their win bumped their record up to 3-7.
Claxton came up short against Appling County when the teams last played back in January, falling 60-52. Thankfully for Claxton, Lj Nance (who dropped a double-double on 19 points and 12 rebounds) won't be suiting up this time. Will that be enough to change the final result? There's only one way to find out.
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