The Norco Cougars will head out to face off against the Yucaipa Thunderbirds at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Expect the scorekeeper to be kept busy: if their previous games are any indication, the two teams will really light up the scoreboard.
Norco is coming into the match on the come-up as their season has now been buoyed by two straight wins. They came out on top against Calvary Chapel by a score of 63-53 on Monday.
Meanwhile, Yucaipa came tearing into Monday's contest with seven straight wins (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 19.1 points) and they left with even more momentum. They escaped with a win against the Aztecs by the margin of a single free throw, 61-60. Given the Thunderbirds' advantage in MaxPreps' California basketball rankings (they are ranked 210th, while the Aztecs are ranked 494th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Yucaipa's victory was their fourth straight at home, which pushed their record up to 13-3. As for Norco, their win bumped their record up to 6-12.
Norco suffered a grim 60-37 defeat to Yucaipa in their previous meeting back in December of 2017. Can Norco avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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