Rogers is 0-8 against the Grizzlies since January of 2015 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Tuesday. The Rogers Mountaineers will head out on the road to face off against the Northside Grizzlies at 6:00 p.m. Both teams come into the matchup bolstered by wins in their previous matches.
Last Friday, Rogers escaped with a win against the Wolverines by the margin of a single free throw, 50-49. The victory made it back-to-back wins for Rogers.
Meanwhile, Northside had already won seven in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 21 points), and they went ahead and made it eight on Friday. They pulled ahead with a 64-63 photo finish over Har-Ber. Having run the score up that high, both teams might be doing some extra defensive drills very soon.
It was another big night for Erianna Gooden, who scored 24 points along with six rebounds. Hazley Grotjohn was another key contributor, scoring 19 points.
Rogers' victory bumped their record up to 8-10. As for Northside, they are on a roll lately: they've won 12 of their last 13 contests, which provided a nice bump to their 20-3 record this season.
Rogers suffered a grim 67-42 defeat to the Grizzlies when the teams last played back in January. The contest was all but decided by halftime, at which point Rogers was down 35-15.
