Olton and Farwell are an even 5-5 against one another since February of 2019, but not for long. The Olton Mustangs will face off against the Farwell Steers at 8:00 p.m. on Friday. Both squads will be entering this one on the heels of a big victory.
Olton will head into Tuesday's matchup on the come-up: they were handed a heart-breaking three-point loss in their last contest, but they sure didn't let that happen against Sudan on Tuesday. Olton claimed a resounding 79-28 win over Sudan. Given the Mustangs' advantage in MaxPreps' Texas basketball rankings (they are ranked 300th, while the Hornets are ranked 1065th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Meanwhile, you can't lose the game if you win every quarter, and that was precisely Farwell's strategy against Bovina on Tuesday. Given that consistent dominance, it should come as no surprise that Farwell blew Bovina out of the water with a 92-33 final score. The game was all but wrapped up at the end of the third, by which point the Steers had established a 57 point advantage.
Farwell is on a roll lately: they've won six of their last seven contests, which provided a nice bump to their 19-4 record this season. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 69.4 points per game. As for Olton, they pushed their record up to 17-4 with the victory, which was their fourth straight at home.
Olton came up short against Farwell when the teams last played back in December of 2023, falling 51-41. Can Olton avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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