The Honey Grove Warriors will venture away from home to take on the Whitewright Tigers at 7:30 p.m. on Friday. Both squads will be entering this one on the heels of a big victory.
If Honey Grove beats Whitewright with 47 points on Friday, it's going to be the team's new lucky number: they've won their past two games with that exact score. Honey Grove was the clear victor by a 47-21 margin over Wolfe City on Tuesday. The matchup was all but wrapped up at the end of the third, by which point the Warriors had established a 24 point advantage.
Meanwhile, Whitewright came tearing into Tuesday's contest with four straight wins (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 17.3 points) and they left with even more momentum. They blew past the Tigers, posting a 63-32 victory. Given Whitewright's advantage in MaxPreps' Texas basketball rankings (they are ranked 679th, while Trenton is ranked 1616th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Whitewright pushed their record up to 22-3 with the win, which was their seventh straight on the road. As for Honey Grove, they are also on a roll lately: they've won nine of their last ten games, which provided a nice bump to their 10-4 record this season.
Honey Grove came up short against Whitewright in their previous matchup back in December of 2024, falling 46-38. Can Honey Grove avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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