Sandburg is 2-8 against Lincoln-Way East since December of 2018 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Tuesday. The Sandburg Eagles will look to defend their home court against the Lincoln-Way East Griffins at 6:30 p.m. Expect the scorekeeper to be kept busy: if their previous games are any indication, the two teams will really light up the scoreboard.
Last Friday, Sandburg lost to Homewood-Flossmoor at home by a 76-60 margin. Despite running the score up even higher than they did in their prior game on Tuesday (58), the Eagles still had to take the loss.
Meanwhile, Lincoln-Way East had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 12 points) and they went ahead and made it three on Friday. They snuck past the Porters with a 69-65 victory.
Lincoln-Way East pushed their record up to 12-8 with the win, which was their fourth straight on the road. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 64.3 points per game. As for Sandburg, their loss dropped their record down to 12-10.
Sandburg came up short against Lincoln-Way East when the teams last played two weeks ago, falling 59-50. Can Sandburg avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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