Corner Canyon and Bingham are an even 3-3 against one another since December of 2014, but not for long. The Corner Canyon Chargers will head out on the road to challenge the Bingham Miners at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Corner Canyon is looking to tack on another W to their 14-game streak on the road dating back to last season.
Winning is just a little bit easier when you work as a team to rack up 19 more assists than your opponent, a fact Corner Canyon proved on Tuesday. They breezed by Mountain Ridge at home to the tune of 70-40. Given Corner Canyon's advantage in MaxPreps' Utah basketball rankings (they are ranked sixth, while Mountain Ridge is ranked 54th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Corner Canyon got their win on the backs of several key players, but it was Isaac Neibaur out in front who scored 16 points along with five assists and five rebounds. Neibaur hasn't dropped below 16 points for four straight games. Noah Bendinger was another key contributor, scoring 17 points along with six assists.
Meanwhile, Bingham pushed their score all the way to 66 on Tuesday, but even that wasn't enough to win. They took a 70-66 hit to the loss column at the hands of Herriman. Despite running the score up even higher than they did in their prior game on Friday (62), Bingham still had to take the loss.
Corner Canyon is on a roll lately: they've won 14 of their last 15 games, which provided a massive bump to their 15-7 record this season. As for Bingham, their loss dropped their record down to 11-11.
Corner Canyon strolled past Bingham when the teams last played back in January by a score of 68-52. The rematch might be a little tougher for Corner Canyon since the squad won't have the home-court advantage this time around. We'll see if the change in venue makes a difference.
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