The Walnut Hills Eagles will take on the Princeton Vikings at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday. Both teams are coming into the matchup red-hot, with Walnut Hills sitting on eight straight victories and Princeton on 12.
Walnut Hills is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Wednesday. They narrowly escaped with a win as the team sidled past Mount Notre Dame 50-48. The victory was all the more spectacular given the Eagles' disadvantage in MaxPreps' Ohio basketball rankings (they are ranked 41st in Ohio, while Mount Notre Dame are ranked fourth in Ohio).
Fairmont typically has all the answers at home, but on Wednesday Princeton proved too difficult a challenge. They walked away with a 57-50 win over the Firebirds.
Princeton's victory was their sixth straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 19-6. The wins came thanks in part to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 61.2 points over those games. As for Walnut Hills, their win bumped their record up to 20-5.
Walnut Hills was taken down by Princeton 61-30 in their previous matchup back in February of 2023. Can Walnut Hills avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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