The Hibriten Panthers will head out on the road to take on the South Caldwell Spartans at 6:30 p.m. on Friday.
It was a proper cat-fight when Hibriten faced off against Alexander Central on Tuesday. Hibriten was just a bucket shy of victory and fell 49-48 to Alexander Central. The Panthers have now taken an 'L' in back-to-back games.
Meanwhile, South Caldwell had already won six in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 12.2 points) and they went ahead and made it seven on Monday. They walked away with a 75-63 victory over the Huskies. Given the Spartans' advantage in MaxPreps' North Carolina basketball rankings (they are ranked 73rd, while the Huskies are ranked 207th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
South Caldwell pushed their record up to 16-7 with the win, which was their fourth straight on the road. Those victories came thanks in part to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 67.5 points over those games. As for Hibriten, their defeat dropped their record down to 13-10.
Hibriten couldn't quite finish off South Caldwell when the teams last played back in January and fell 51-49. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of South Caldwell's Ava Anderson, who posted 21 points. Now that Hibriten knows the damage she can cause, will they be able to stop her this time? There's only one way to find out.
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