The Lake Weir Hurricanes will head out on the road to challenge the Dunnellon Tigers at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday. Lake Weir is looking for their season's first win.
Lake Weir is headed in fresh off scoring the most points they have all season. They lost 52-28 to Belleview on Friday. While losing is never fun, the Hurricanes can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Florida basketball rankings (they are ranked 557th, while the Rattlers are ranked 268th).
Meanwhile, Dunnellon entered their match against Trinity Catholic on Friday without any home losses, but there's a first time for everything. Dunnellon came up short against Trinity Catholic, falling 68-48. The Tigers were down 49-28 at the end of the third quarter, which was just too much to recover from.
Lake Weir's defeat dropped their record down to 0-14. As for Dunnellon, their loss ended a six-game streak of wins at home dating back to last season and dropped them to 9-10.
Lake Weir was dealt a bruising 65-12 defeat at the hands of Dunnellon in their previous meeting back in December of 2024. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Dunnellon's Tonyah Boggs, who dropped a triple-double on 23 points, ten assists, and 11 steals. Now that Lake Weir knows the damage she can cause, will they be able to stop her this time? There's only one way to find out.
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