New Deal and Abernathy are an even 5-5 against one another since January of 2016, but not for long. The New Deal Lions will take on the Abernathy Antelopes at 7:30 p.m. on Friday. New Deal will be strutting in after a win while Abernathy will be coming in after a loss.
It was a proper cat-fight when New Deal duked it out withSmyer on Tuesday. New Deal blew past Smyer 70-45. The game was all but wrapped up at the end of the third, by which point the Lions had established a 23 point advantage.
Meanwhile, after a string of five wins, Abernathy's good fortune finally ran out on Tuesday. They came up short against New Home, falling 58-35. While losing is never fun, the Antelopes can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Texas basketball rankings (they are ranked 577th, while the Leopards are ranked 229th).
The victory got New Deal back to even at 12-12. As for Abernathy, their defeat ended a five-game streak of away wins and brought them to 13-8.
New Deal ended up a good deal behind Abernathy when the teams last played back in December of 2023, losing 57-42. Can New Deal avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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