Wilson hasn't had much luck against Deshler recently, but that could start to change on Friday. The Wilson Warriors are taking a road trip to take on the Deshler Tigers at 6:00 p.m. Both squads will be entering this one on the heels of a big victory.
Last Friday, Wilson was fully in charge, breezing past Brooks 59-24. Given the Warriors' advantage in MaxPreps' Alabama basketball rankings (they are ranked 105th, while the Lions are ranked 368th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Meanwhile, Deshler had already won 13 in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 33.2 points) and they went ahead and made it 14 on Tuesday. They blew past the Hornets 77-33. The Tigers pushed the score to 63-27 by the end of the third, a deficit the Hornets had no chance of recovering from.
Deshler has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won 16 of their last 17 contests, which provided a nice bump to their 22-4 record this season. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 71.4 points per game. As for Wilson, their victory bumped their record up to 20-4.
Wilson suffered a grim 69-44 defeat to Deshler when the teams last played last Tuesday. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Deshler's Reece Davis, who went 10 of 21 on her way to 31 points. Now that Wilson knows the damage she can cause, will they be able to stop her this time? There's only one way to find out.
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