Georgetown is 2-8 against the Lions since January of 2017 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Friday. The Georgetown Bulldogs will head out on the road to square off against the Loris Lions at 12:00 p.m. Expect the scorekeeper to be kept busy: if their previous games are any indication, the two teams will really light up the scoreboard.
Last Tuesday, Georgetown didn't have too much trouble with the Monarchs at home as they won 58-44. The win made it back-to-back wins for Georgetown.
Ty Stanley went supernova for Georgetown, scoring 23 points along with seven blocks and five rebounds. As a matter of fact, that's the most points Stanley has scored all season. The team also got some help courtesy of Kavonte Matthews, who scored ten points.
Meanwhile, Loris waltzed into their contest on Tuesday with nine straight wins but they left with ten. They narrowly escaped with a victory as the squad sidled past Waccamaw 61-58. Given Loris' advantage in MaxPreps' South Carolina basketball rankings (they are ranked 76th, while the Warriors are ranked 206th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Georgetown has been performing well recently as they've won four of their last five matchups, which provided a massive bump to their 11-11 record this season. As for Loris, they pushed their record up to 17-5 with that victory, which was their fourth straight on the road.
Georgetown was taken down by the Lions 80-51 in their previous matchup back in January. The contest was all but decided by halftime, at which point Georgetown was down 45-25.
