The Lake Blue Streaks are taking a road trip to take on the Tallmadge Blue Devils at 6:45 p.m. on Wednesday. Lake is coming into the matchup on a six-game losing streak.
Lake is headed into the contest having just suffered their closest loss since January 4th on Monday. They fell just short of Northwest by a score of 43-40. While losing is never fun, the Blue Streaks can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Ohio basketball rankings (they are ranked 300th, while the Indians are ranked 137th).
Meanwhile, Tallmadge slipped by Marlington 40-39 on Monday. The victory made it back-to-back wins for the Blue Devils.
Tallmadge is also on a roll lately: they've won three of their last four games, which provided a nice bump to their 14-6 record this season. As for Lake, their defeat dropped their record down to 4-15.
Lake strolled past Tallmadge when the teams last played back in November of 2023 by a score of 56-40. The rematch might be a little tougher for Lake since the squad won't have the home-court advantage this time around. We'll see if the change in venue makes a difference.
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