A feisty cat fight will be fought when the Life Oak Cliff Lions face off against the Trinity Leadership Tigers at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday...
On Friday, Life Oak Cliff took a blow against Village Tech, falling 73-40. While losing is never fun, the Lions can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Texas basketball rankings (they are ranked 753rd, while the Viper Squid are ranked 282nd).
Meanwhile, the third road contest was the charm for Trinity Leadership, as they earned their first road win of the season. They blew past A Plus Academy 100-36 on Friday. The Tigers pushed the score to 79-28 by the end of the third, a deficit the Knights had no chance of recovering from.
Life Oak Cliff better keep an eye on Caron McGee. He was instrumental in Trinity Leadership's win, going 10 of 20 en route to 30 points and three steals. McGee's afternoon made it eight games in a row in which he has scored at least ten points. The team also got some help courtesy of Darion Rodgers, who went 5 of 9 on his way to 12 points along with six assists and three steals.
Trinity Leadership has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won nine of their last ten matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 13-14 record this season. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 75.5 points per game. As for Life Oak Cliff, their loss dropped their record down to 12-10.
Life Oak Cliff lost to Trinity Leadership on the road by a decisive 68-53 margin when the teams last played back in January of 2024. Can Life Oak Cliff avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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