The Sweetwater Red Devils will take on the Southwest SD Raiders at 6:30 p.m. on Monday. The two teams are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.
Sweetwater is headed in fresh off scoring the most points they have all season. They took their game on Saturday with ease, bagging a 73-43 victory over Southern California Yeshiva. The win was nothing new for the Red Devils as they're now sitting on six straight.
Meanwhile, you can't lose the game if you win every quarter, and that was precisely Southwest SD's strategy against Mar Vista on Friday. Given that consistent dominance, it should come as no surprise that Southwest SD blew Mar Vista out of the water with a 91-45 final score. The Raiders have made a habit of sweeping their opponents off the court, having now won 16 matchups by 20 points or more this season.
Sweetwater better focus on containing Noah Soltero and Khalid Deiranieh as the pair were huge in Southwest SD's win. Soltero posted 21 points, while Deiranieh scored 19 points. Deiranieh's evening made it five games in a row in which he has scored at least 16 points. The team also got some help courtesy of Shaun Verdida, who had 12 points.
Southwest SD is on a roll lately: they've won 13 of their last 15 contests, which provided a nice bump to their 19-6 record this season. They've dominated over that stretch too, winning by an average of 29.9 points. As for Sweetwater, their victory was their third straight at home, which pushed their record up to 14-11.
Sweetwater took a serious blow against Southwest SD when the teams last played back in January, falling 74-25. That game was all but decided by halftime, at which point Sweetwater was down 42-10.
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