The Powers Catholic Chargers will be staying on the road on Friday to face off against the Lincoln Abes at 5:30 p.m. on March 15th. Keep an eye on the score for this one: both teams posted some lofty point totals in their previous games.
With a playoff game on the line, Powers Catholic rose to the challenge on Tuesday. They managed a 81-77 victory over the Flivvers.
Powers Catholic's success was spearheaded by the efforts of Connor Kelly, who scored 26 points along with five rebounds, and Javontae Ross, who dropped a double-double on 22 points and 12 assists. Ross has been hot recently, having posted two or more steals the last 12 times he's played. The team also got some help courtesy of Dempsey Cull, who scored 13 points.
Meanwhile, Lincoln came tearing into Tuesday's game with four straight wins (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 30.3 points) and they left with even more momentum. They enjoyed a cozy 61-42 victory over Goodrich. Lincoln pushed the score to 55-33 by the end of the third, a deficit Goodrich cut but never quite recovered from.
Powers Catholic is on a roll lately: they've won ten of their last 12 contests, which provided a nice bump to their 22-5 record this season. As for Lincoln, their win bumped their record up to 22-4.
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