The St. Mary Cardinals will challenge the Dawson-Boyd Blackjacks at 7:45 p.m. on Saturday. Both squads will be entering this one on the heels of a big victory.
Dawson-Boyd will be up against a hot St. Mary squad: the team just extended their winning streak to nine. St. Mary breezed by Oldham-Ramona/R to the tune of 82-32 on Thursday. Given the Cardinals' advantage in MaxPreps' South Dakota basketball rankings (they are ranked fifth, while the Rutland are ranked 150th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Meanwhile, Dawson-Boyd had already won four in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 41.3 points) and they went ahead and made it five on Tuesday. They simply couldn't be stopped as they easily beat the Jaguars 100-45.
St. Mary pushed their record up to 9-0 with the win, which was their 12th straight at home dating back to last season. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 71.3 points per game. As for Dawson-Boyd, their victory bumped their record up to 11-2.
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