Forest Lake hasn't had much luck against Cretin-Derham Hall recently, but that could start to change on Friday. The Forest Lake Rangers will be playing at home against the Cretin-Derham Hall Raiders at 7:00 p.m. Forest Lake has been getting the ball to fall more lately as they've increased their point totals each of their last three games.
Forest Lake is headed in fresh off scoring the most points they have all season. They were just a bucket shy of victory on Tuesday and fell 73-72 to Park. Despite running the score up even higher than they did in their prior game on Friday (70), the Rangers still had to take the loss.
Meanwhile, Cretin-Derham Hall put another one in the bag on Tuesday to keep their perfect season alive. They narrowly escaped with a victory as the team sidled past Stillwater 81-78. Given the Raiders' advantage in MaxPreps' Minnesota basketball rankings (they are ranked third, while the Ponies are ranked 79th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Forest Lake better focus on containing Joe Mitchell and Ty Schlagel as the pair were huge in Cretin-Derham Hall's win. Mitchell went 11 for 22 en route to 32 points and four steals, while Schlagel almost dropped a double-double on 24 points and nine rebounds. Schlagel's evening made it four games in a row in which he has scored at least ten points. The team also got some help courtesy of De'Mandre Frierson-Hollie, who posted nine points and eight boards.
Cretin-Derham Hall's win was their 11th straight on the road dating back to last season, which pushed their record up to 14-0. As for Forest Lake, their defeat dropped their record down to 3-11.
Forest Lake came up short against Cretin-Derham Hall when the teams last played back in February of 2024, falling 85-81. Can Forest Lake avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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