The Windsor Warriors will head out to square off against the Manchester Red Hawks at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday. Both squads will be entering this one on the heels of a big victory.
Windsor is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Connecticut's top teams: East Hartford, who was ranked 15th at the time (Windsor was ranked 11th). Windsor breezed past East Hartford to the tune of 92-53 on Tuesday. The win made it back-to-back victories for the Warriors.
Meanwhile, Manchester entered their tilt with Tolland on Tuesday with eight consecutive wins , and they'll enter their next game with nine. They claimed a resounding 90-59 win over the Eagles. The Red Hawks pushed the score to 70-40 by the end of the third, a deficit the Eagles had little chance of recovering from.
Windsor better focus on containing Derrick Sheets and Will Oden-Tann as the pair were huge in Manchester's win. Sheets went 12-for-21 en route to 33 points along with seven assists and four steals, while Oden-Tann went 11-for-20 on his way to 31 points in addition to five rebounds and five steals. Oden-Tann is also on a roll when it comes to field goal percentage, as he's posted one of at least 46% in the last eight games he's played. Another player making a difference was Joe Mugovero, who posted eight points along with eight boards and six assists.
Manchester pushed their record up to 20-1 with the victory, which was their fifth straight at home. They've dominated over that stretch too, winning by an average of 22.2 points. As for Windsor, their win bumped their record up to 16-8.
Windsor came up short against Manchester in their previous matchup back in January, falling 89-84. Can Windsor avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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