Two dominant guards in Grayson Burleson and Ryan Benderman are getting ready to go toe-to-toe. The Summertown Eagles will face off against the Mt. Pleasant Tigers at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Expect the scorekeeper to be kept busy: if their previous games are any indication, both teams will really light up the scoreboard.
Summertown entered their tilt with Community with two consecutive wins but they'll enter their next game with three. Summertown snuck past Community with a 76-72 win on Saturday. Given Summertown's advantage in MaxPreps' Tennessee basketball rankings (they are ranked 148th, while Community is ranked 327th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Meanwhile, Mt. Pleasant didn't have too much trouble with Grundy County on the road on Saturday as they won 68-52. The win made it back-to-back wins for Mt. Pleasant.
Mt. Pleasant's success was the result of a balanced attack that saw several players step up, but Nick Brown led the charge by scoring 22 points along with seven rebounds. Brown continues to roll, besting his previous point total in each of the last four games he's played. The team also got some help courtesy of Hayden Holt, who scored 20 points along with two steals.
Summertown is on a roll lately: they've won four of their last five games, which provided a nice bump to their 22-9 record this season. As for Mt. Pleasant, they pushed their record up to 21-6 with that win, which was their fifth straight on the road.
Summertown was able to grind out a solid victory over Mt. Pleasant when the teams last played last Thursday, winning 71-58. Will Summertown repeat their success, or does Mt. Pleasant have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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