Mitchell is 0-8 against Falcon since December of 2016 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Wednesday. The Mitchell Marauders' road trip will continue as they head out to face the Falcon Falcons at 7:00 p.m. on February 14th. Mitchell will have to bring their A-game into this one, as they are staring down a pretty big deficit in the MaxPreps Colorado Rankings (they are ranked 322nd, while Falcon is ranked 97th).
It's never fun to lose, and it's even less fun to lose 75-18, which was the final score in Mitchell's tilt against Sierra on Monday. Mitchell has not had much luck with Sierra recently, as the team's come up short the last seven times they've met.
Meanwhile, Falcon humbled Elizabeth with a 79-51 victory. Falcon pushed the score to 67-35 by the end of the third, a deficit Elizabeth cut but never quite recovered from.
Multiple players turned in solid performances to lead Falcon to victory, but perhaps none more so than Jeramiah Potts, who scored 18 points along with two steals. The team also got some help courtesy of Christian Bertholf, who almost dropped a double-double on 11 points and nine rebounds.
Mitchell dropped their record down to 0-22 with that loss, which was their 19th straight on the road dating back to last season. That rough patch could be blamed on the team's offensive performance across that stretch, as they only averaged 20.1 points per game. As for Falcon, they have been performing well recently as they've won 11 of their last 14 contests, which provided a nice bump to their 16-6 record this season.
Mitchell was taken down by Falcon 69-29 when the teams last played two weeks ago. That game was all but decided by halftime, at which point Mitchell was down 43-17.
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