The Waynedale Golden Bears will square off against the Louisville Leopards at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday.
On Thursday, Waynedale opened the new year with a less-than-successful 39-30 defeat to Smithville. While losing is never fun, the Golden Bears can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Ohio basketball rankings (they are ranked 324th, while the Smithies are ranked 62nd).
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Louisville). They simply couldn't be stopped on Thursday as they easily beat Buchtel 64-36. The contest was pretty much decided by the half, when the score had already reached 44-15.
The win snapped Louisville's losing streak at three games and leaves them with a 4-6 record. As for Waynedale, this is the second loss in a row for them and nudges their season record down to 5-7.
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