The Alexander Cougars will take on the Sprayberry Yellow Jackets in a holiday battle at 3:30 p.m. on Saturday. Both come into the contest bolstered by wins in their previous matches.
If Alexander beats Sprayberry with 51 points on Saturday, it's going to be the squad's new lucky number: they've won their past two games with that exact score. The Cougars snuck past East Paulding with a 51-47 win on Tuesday. The victory continues a trend for the Cougars in their matchups with the Raiders: they've now won four in a row.
Alexander's win was a true team effort, with many players turning in solid performances. Perhaps the best among them was Nimah Ibidunni, who dropped a double-double with 21 points and 16 rebounds. That makes it four consecutive games in which Ibidunni has scored at least a third of the Cougars' points. Jayden Allen was another key player, going 6-for-13 en route to 15 points.
Alexander was working as a unit and finished the game with 13 assists. They are 4-1 when they've passed the ball that well.
Meanwhile, Sprayberry played in-conference for the first time on Friday and got just the result they were looking for. They walked away with a 46-39 victory over Woodstock. The Yellow Jackets pushed the score to 44-22 by the end of the third, a deficit the Wolverines cut but never quite recovered from.
Alexander now has a winning record of 5-4. As for Sprayberry, their win bumped their record up to 5-3.
Alexander suffered a grim 66-44 defeat to Sprayberry when the teams last played back in December of 2020. Can the Cougars avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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