Two dominant guards in Kyeona Myers and Tatum Lusher are getting ready to go toe-to-toe. The Whitehall-Yearling Rams will be home for the holidays to greet the Grandview Heights Bobcats at 6:15 p.m. on Friday. Whitehall-Yearling is coming into the contest hot, having won their last three games.
While Whitehall-Yearling didn't have the best season last year (they finished 4-16), it's starting to look like those struggles are a thing of the past. They snuck past Bishop Ready with a 47-41 victory on Tuesday. Given the Rams' advantage in MaxPreps' Ohio basketball rankings (they are ranked 211th, while the Silver Knights are ranked 444th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Meanwhile, after a string of three wins, Grandview Heights' good fortune finally ran out on Wednesday. They fell to Columbus School for Girls 37-31. The game marked the Bobcats' lowest-scoring match so far this season.
Whitehall-Yearling has been performing well recently as they've won five of their last six contests, which provided a nice bump to their 7-3 record this season. As for Grandview Heights, their defeat dropped their record down to 3-5.
Whitehall-Yearling lost to Grandview Heights at home by a decisive 55-37 margin when the teams last played back in January. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Lusher, who went 8 of 14 on her way to 19 points in addition to seven boards and six assists. Now that Whitehall-Yearling knows the damage she can cause, will they be able to stop her this time? There's only one way to find out.
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