West Craven is 1-9 against Greene Central since February of 2020 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Friday. The West Craven Eagles will welcome the Greene Central Rams at 7:30 p.m. Both teams took a loss in their last game, so they'll have plenty of motivation to get the 'W'.
West Craven is headed into the matchup out to prove that what happened against Washington on Wednesday (when they were outscored in every quarter) was just a minor bump in the road. West Craven came up short against Washington, falling 75-49. While losing is never fun, the Eagles can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' North Carolina basketball rankings (they are ranked 418th, while the Pam Pack are ranked 44th).
Meanwhile, Greene Central came up short against Washington on Tuesday and fell 67-60.
West Craven will have to keep a close watch on Nick Avent and Joshua Cetnar, a pair of players who had a big impact on Greene Central's prior game. Avent dropped a double-double on 18 points and ten rebounds, while Cetnar went 6 of 8 en route to 13 points and six boards. Those six boards gave Cetnar a new career-high. The team also got some help courtesy of Dontrez Evans, who posted ten points and four steals.
This is the second loss in a row for West Craven and nudges their season record down to 4-12. As for Greene Central, their loss dropped their record down to 9-9.
Things could have been worse for West Craven, but things could have been a whole lot better as they took an 87-69 loss to Greene Central when the teams last played back in January. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Greene Central's Jalin Sutton, who dropped a double-double on 19 points and 11 rebounds. Now that West Craven knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? There's only one way to find out.
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