After having lost a blowout in their previous game against Greenfield-Central, New Castle was happy to have turned things around on Saturday. They took down the Rushville Lions 39-20. The Trojans have seen this before: they got the W the last time they saw the Lions, too.
New Castle can attribute much of their success to Alijah Turner, who posted eight points and 11 boards. Landon Thompson was another key player, putting up ten points and eight rebounds.
New Castle is on a roll lately: they've won four of their last five contests, which provided a massive bump to their 5-8 record this season. As for Rushville, they are on a three-game losing streak that has dropped them down to 2-10.
New Castle has already played their next matchup (against Yorktown), but no score has been uploaded at the time of writing. Rushville will host Centerville at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday. Centerville is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 55.7 points per game this season.
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