Having just played yesterday, the Rancho Cucamonga Cougars will jump right back in to play the Brentwood School Eagles at 12:00 p.m. on Saturday. Both squads will be entering this one on the heels of a big victory.
Brentwood School will be up against a hot Rancho Cucamonga squad: the team just extended their winning streak to three. Rancho Cucamonga claimed a resounding 68-24 victory over Upland. Given the Cougars' advantage in MaxPreps' California basketball rankings (they are ranked 41st, while the Highlanders/Scots are ranked 455th), the result on Friday wasn't entirely unexpected.
Meanwhile, Brentwood School had already won four in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 30.3 points) and they went ahead and made it five on Thursday. They really took it to the Panthers for the full four quarters, racking up a 67-27 win. The Eagles pushed the score to 52-23 by the end of the third, a deficit the Panthers had little chance of recovering from.
Rancho Cucamonga better focus on containing Lev Feiman and Payton Sugar as the pair were huge in Brentwood School's win. Feiman dropped a double-double on 13 points and ten boards, while Sugar went 5 of 10 en route to 15 points. Another player making a difference was Logan Scott, who posted six points and six rebounds.
Brentwood School smashed the offensive glass and finished the game with 18 offensive rebounds. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now pulled down at least 15 offensive boards in seven consecutive games.
Rancho Cucamonga pushed their record up to 20-3 with the victory, which was their sixth straight on the road. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 58.7 points per game. As for Brentwood School, they have been performing incredibly well recently as they've won nine of their last ten matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 16-5 record this season.
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