Sunnyside is 1-7 against San Joaquin Memorial since December of 2014 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Wednesday. A feisty cat fight is on tap when the Sunnyside Wildcats duke it out with the San Joaquin Memorial Panthers at 6:30 p.m. Expect the scorekeeper to be kept busy: if their previous games are any indication, the two teams will really light up the scoreboard.
Last Friday, Sunnyside was within striking distance but couldn't close the gap as they fell 69-65 to Bullard. Despite running the score up even higher than they did in their prior game on Wednesday (63), the Wildcats still had to take the loss.
Meanwhile, San Joaquin Memorial had already won seven in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 30.7 points) and they went ahead and made it eight on Friday. They blew past the Patriots 56-33. Given the Panthers' advantage in MaxPreps' California basketball rankings (they are ranked 44th, while the Patriots are ranked 375th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
San Joaquin Memorial pushed their record up to 20-4 with the win, which was their eighth straight on the road. As for Sunnyside, their defeat dropped their record down to 15-8.
Things could have been worse for Sunnyside, but things could have been a whole lot better as they took a 58-44 loss to San Joaquin Memorial in their previous meeting back in December of 2022. Can Sunnyside avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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