The Avon Grove Red Devils will take on the Lancaster Mennonite Blazers in a tournament on Friday. Avon Grove has a tough task ahead: they'll enter the matchup with four straight defeats, while Lancaster Mennonite will come in with eight straight wins.
Last Thursday, Avon Grove had to suffer through a 71-41 loss at the hands of Coatesville. While losing is never fun, the Red Devils can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Pennsylvania basketball rankings (they are ranked 496th, while the Red Raiders are ranked 28th).
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Lancaster Mennonite). They took down Chester 80-65 on Saturday. The Blazers pushed the score to 67-46 by the end of the third, a deficit the Clippers cut but never quite recovered from.
Lancaster Mennonite pushed their record up to 8-0 with the victory, which was their seventh straight at home dating back to last season. As for Avon Grove, their loss dropped their record down to 1-4.
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