After both having extra time off, the Whitehorse Raiders and the Wendover Wildcats will shake off the cobwebs and face off against one another at 11:30 a.m. on February 28th. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Whitehorse has three straight wins, Wendover has four straight defeats), but none of that matters once you're on the field.
Whitehorse scored the most points they've had all season to find success last Friday. They blew past Northwest 121-45 at home. Perhaps unsurprisinly given the team's high-flying offense, the game also marked the team's biggest win of the season.
Whitehorse had a senior duo take command as Lyric Phillips scored 55 points and Larenz Tsosie scored 34 points. That makes it 12 consecutive games in which Phillips has scored at least a third of Whitehorse's points. The team also got some help courtesy of Dominic Dance, who scored seven points.
Meanwhile, Wendover pushed their score all the way to 56 last Friday, but even that wasn't enough to win. They received a tough blow as they fell 70-56 to Rich.
Wendover might have lost, but man, Raul Valle was a machine: he scored 20 points along with five steals. Tre Tangaro was another key contributor, scoring 12 points along with five rebounds and two steals.
The victory got Whitehorse back to even at 11-11. As for Wendover, their loss dropped their record down to 16-6.
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