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| 01/13/25 - Away | 56-17 W |
| 12/12/17 - Home | 58-41 W |
| 12/13/16 - Away | 75-25 W |
Cactus Shadows has gone 3-0 against Marcos de Niza recently and they'll look to pad the win column further on Friday. The Cactus Shadows Falcons will venture away from home to challenge the Marcos de Niza Padres at 5:30 p.m. Cactus Shadows is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 50.5 points per game this season.
Cactus Shadows will roll into the matchup after a wild two-game stretch: they only put up 22 points on Friday, then bounced right back against Arcadia on Tuesday. Cactus Shadows breezed by Arcadia to the tune of 60-25. With the Falcons ahead 35-12 at the half, the contest was all but over already.
Mateja Cousins was her usual excellent self, dropping a double-double on 25 points and 11 boards. That makes it three consecutive games in which she has scored at least a third of Cactus Shadows' points. The team also got some help courtesy of Ellie Sarraino, who went 5 for 10 en route to 11 points and six steals.
Meanwhile, Marcos de Niza was not able to break out of their rough patch on Thursday as the team picked up their 12th straight loss. They took a blow against Mesquite, falling 117-9. While losing is never fun, the Padres can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Arizona basketball rankings (they are ranked 266th, while the Wildcats are ranked fourth).
Cactus Shadows' win was their sixth straight at home, which pushed their record up to 15-7. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 55.0 points per game. As for Marcos de Niza, their defeat dropped their record down to 4-18.
Everything came up roses for Cactus Shadows against Marcos de Niza in their previous meeting on January 13th, as the team secured a 56-17 victory. In that game, Cactus Shadows amassed a halftime lead of 33-13, an impressive feat they'll look to repeat on Friday.
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