Two dominant guards in Brooklyn Jackson and Ja'Nya Wiley are getting ready to go toe-to-toe. The West Laurens Raiders will head out to square off against the Cross Creek Razorbacks at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Both are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.
West Laurens will head into Wednesday's match hoping to keep the good times rolling: they had to skate by with only a two-point margin when they last took the court, which might have inspired the 31-point drubbing they dealt Aquinas on Wednesday. West Laurens claimed a resounding 60-29 win over Aquinas.
Meanwhile, Cross Creek had already won nine in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 37 points) and they went ahead and made it ten on Friday. They were the clear victor by a 49-28 margin over the Fightin' Irish. Given the Razorbacks' advantage in MaxPreps' Georgia basketball rankings (they are ranked 182nd, while the Fightin' Irish are ranked 403rd), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Cross Creek pushed their record up to 14-8 with the victory, which was their sixth straight on the road. Those victories came thanks to their defensive effort, having only surrendered 27.3 points per game. As for West Laurens, their win bumped their record up to 6-16.
West Laurens might still be hurting after the 52-29 loss they got from Cross Creek in their previous meeting back in January. Can West Laurens avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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