The North Salinas Vikings will challenge the Pacific Grove Breakers at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday. The teams are rolling into the game with opposing streaks: North Salinas has struggled recently with 24 defeats in a row, while Pacific Grove will arrive with six straight victories.
On Saturday, North Salinas came up short against Palma and fell 44-32. While losing is never fun, the Vikings can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' California basketball rankings (they are ranked 1159th, while the Chieftains are ranked 526th).
Stevenson typically has all the answers at home, but on Tuesday Pacific Grove proved too difficult a challenge. They snuck past the Pirates with a 57-51 win.
Pacific Grove is also on a roll lately: they've won ten of their last 11 contests, which provided a nice bump to their 11-4 record this season. As for North Salinas, their loss dropped their record down to 0-14.
North Salinas couldn't quite finish off Pacific Grove in their previous meeting back in February of 2024 and fell 52-49. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Pacific Grove's Savannah Hardy, who dropped a double-double on 17 points and ten rebounds. Now that North Salinas 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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