The Pacifica Mariners will venture away from home to square off against the Brea Olinda Wildcats at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Pacifica has a tough task ahead: they'll enter the matchup with seven straight defeats, while Brea Olinda will come in with six straight victories.
On Friday, Pacifica was beaten by Troy 60-28. While losing is never fun, the Mariners can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' California basketball rankings (they are ranked 990th, while the Warriors are ranked 376th).
El Modena typically has all the answers at home, but on Tuesday Brea Olinda proved too difficult a challenge. They walked away with a 57-44 win over the Vanguards. The Wildcats pushed the score to 52-32 by the end of the third, a deficit the Vanguards cut but never quite recovered from.
Pacifica better keep an eye on Liz Han. She was instrumental in Brea Olinda's win, putting up 27 points. Those 27 points gave Han a new career-high. The team also got some help courtesy of Sarah Wang, who posted ten points.
Brea Olinda has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won 11 of their last 12 contests, which provided a massive bump to their 16-10 record this season. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 52.2 points per game. As for Pacifica, their loss dropped their record down to 6-20.
Pacifica was taken down by Brea Olinda 65-25 when the teams last played two weeks ago. That game was all but decided by halftime, at which point Pacifica was down 37-8.
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