Ellinwood and Ell-Saline are an even 5-5 against one another since December of 2014, but not for long. The Ellinwood Eagles will take on the Ell-Saline Cardinals in a holiday battle at on Tuesday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Ellinwood has four straight wins, Ell-Saline has five straight defeats), but none of that matters once you're on the court.
While Ellinwood didn't have the best season last year (they finished 5-16), it's starting to look like those struggles are a thing of the past. They snuck past Kiowa County with a 60-55 victory on Saturday.
Meanwhile, it's never fun to lose, and it's even less fun to lose 58-30, which was the final score in Ell-Saline's tilt against Bennington on Saturday.
Ellinwood's win bumped their record up to 4-0. As for Ell-Saline, their loss dropped their record down to 0-4.
Ellinwood suffered a grim 57-36 defeat to Ell-Saline when the teams last played back in December of 2023. That match was all but decided by halftime, at which point Ellinwood was down 36-16.
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