The North Kingstown Skippers will venture away from home to challenge the Classical Purple at 6:00 p.m. on Friday. Both teams took a loss in their last game, so they'll have plenty of motivation to get the 'W'.
North Kingstown is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Rhode Island's top teams: Lincoln, who was ranked 13th at the time (North Kingstown was ranked 18th). North Kingstown was dealt an 88-53 defeat at the hands of Lincoln on Wednesday. The Skippers have now taken an 'L' in back-to-back games.
Meanwhile, while it was all tied up 21-21 at halftime, Classical was not quite La Salle Academy's equal in the second half on Wednesday. They took a 60-44 bruising from the Rams. The matchup marked the Purple's lowest-scoring game so far this season.
North Kingstown will have to contain Eliezer Delbrey as he made an impact in Classical's last game. He posted 19 points. Another player making a difference was Abdul Evans, who earned 11 points.
Classical's loss ended a five-game streak of away wins and brought them to 9-5. As for North Kingstown, their defeat dropped their record down to 6-10.
North Kingstown lost to Classical on the road by a decisive 74-57 margin in their previous matchup on January 3rd. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Delbrey, who put up 34 points. Now that North Kingstown knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? There's only one way to find out.
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