A feisty cat fight is on tap when the Ouachita Parish Lions duke it out with the Parkway Panthers at 6:00 p.m. on Monday... The two teams are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.
Last Friday, Ouachita Parish blew past Pineville, posting a 54-8 win. Given the Lions' advantage in MaxPreps' Louisiana basketball rankings (they are ranked 50th, while the Rebels are ranked 272nd), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Meanwhile, Parkway had already won four in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 21.5 points) and they went ahead and made it five on Friday. Everything went their way against the Chiefs as they made off with a 49-26 victory. The Panthers have made a habit of sweeping their opponents off the court, having now won ten contests by 20 points or more this season.
Parkway pushed their record up to 19-4 with the win, which was their fourth straight at home. They've dominated over that stretch too, winning by an average of 25.8 points. As for Ouachita Parish, they are on a roll lately: they've won six of their last seven games, which provided a nice bump to their 18-6 record this season.
Ouachita Parish was dealt a bruising 54-9 defeat at the hands of Parkway in their previous meeting back in November of 2023. Can Ouachita Parish avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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