The Niles Vikings are taking a road trip to challenge the Mattawan Wildcats at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Niles will be strutting in after a win while Mattawan will be coming in after a loss.
Niles took a loss when they played away from home on Tuesday, but their home fans gave them all the motivation they needed on Friday. They skirted past Edwardsburg 48-45. The victory was all the more spectacular given the Vikings' disadvantage in MaxPreps' Michigan basketball rankings (they are ranked 358th, while the Eddies are ranked 121st).
Meanwhile, Mattawan was not able to break out of their rough patch on Thursday as the team picked up their fifth straight defeat. They had to suffer through a 57-18 loss at the hands of Portage Central.
Mattawan's loss dropped their record down to 3-16. As for Niles, their win was their first in the league, bumping their league record up to 1-11 and their overall record up to 5-14.
Niles was taken down by Mattawan 64-31 when the teams last played back in December of 2023. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Mattawan's Delaney Elsmore, who went 10-for-22 en route to 25 points along with seven rebounds and six steals. Now that Niles 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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