Bishop LeBlond has won seven straight games at home, while Lafayette County has won seven straight on the road, but those streaks won't matter much on Friday. The Bishop LeBlond Eagles will host the Lafayette County Huskers at 2:00 p.m. Both come into the game bolstered by wins in their previous matches.
Bishop LeBlond will head into Saturday's contest hoping to keep the good times rolling: they proved they can win big last Monday (they won by 20) and on Saturday they proved they can win the close ones too. They narrowly escaped with a win as the team sidled past Maysville 46-43. For those keeping track at home, that's the closest victory the Eagles have posted since February 22nd.
Meanwhile, Lafayette County didn't have too much trouble with Southeast on Saturday as they won 61-44. Given the Huskers' advantage in MaxPreps' Missouri basketball rankings (they are ranked 146th, while the Knights are ranked 466th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Lafayette County's win bumped their record up to 7-1. As for Bishop LeBlond, they have been performing incredibly well recently as they've won eight of their last nine matches, which provided a nice bump to their 11-2 record this season.
Bishop LeBlond couldn't quite finish off Lafayette County in their previous meeting back in January of 2019 and fell 45-43. Can Bishop LeBlond avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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