Marysville and Olentangy are an even 5-5 against one another since February of 2019, but not for long. The Marysville Monarchs will host the Olentangy Braves at 7:30 p.m. on Friday. Marysville will be strutting in after a win while Olentangy will be coming in after a defeat.
Marysville is headed in fresh off scoring the most points they have all season. They enjoyed a cozy 73-59 victory over Olentangy Berlin on Saturday. The win made it back-to-back victories for the Monarchs.
Meanwhile, Olentangy was just a bucket shy of victory on Saturday and fell 54-53 to Olentangy Liberty. While losing is never fun, the Braves can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Ohio basketball rankings (they are ranked 143rd, while the Patriots are ranked seventh).
Marysville will have to contain Quentin Page as he made an impact in Olentangy's last game. He went 7 of 13 on his way to 19 points. Those 19 points gave Page a new career-high. Another player making a difference was Ty Walburn, who went 5 for 7 en route to 12 points and five rebounds.
Marysville has been performing well recently as they've won three of their last four games, which provided a massive bump to their 8-8 record this season. The wins came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 59.0 points per game. As for Olentangy, this is the second loss in a row for them and nudges their season record down to 10-6.
Marysville might still be hurting after the 67-45 loss they got from Olentangy in their previous meeting back in December of 2024. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Olentangy's Ulysses Ponder, who went 10 of 17 on his way to 20 points in addition to seven boards and three steals. Now that Marysville 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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