New Riegel and Danbury are an even 5-5 against one another since January of 2020, but not for long. The New Riegel Blue Jackets will take on the Danbury Lakers at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday. New Riegel has a tough task ahead: they'll enter the contest with 11 straight defeats, while Danbury will come in with three straight victories.
New Riegel is headed into the match out to prove that what happened against Woodmore on Saturday (when they were outscored in every quarter) was just a minor bump in the road. New Riegel took a blow against Woodmore, falling 58-24. The Blue Jackets were in a tough position after the first half, with the score already sitting at 33-12.
Meanwhile, Danbury beat Lakota 40-32 on Saturday. Given the Lakers' advantage in MaxPreps' Ohio basketball rankings (they are ranked 217th, while the Raiders are ranked 515th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Danbury's win was their seventh straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 13-2. The wins came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 52.0 points per game. As for New Riegel, their loss dropped their record down to 1-13.
New Riegel was dealt a bruising 62-14 defeat at the hands of Danbury when the teams last played back in December of 2024. That game was all but decided by halftime, at which point New Riegel was down 41-5.
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