The Batesville Bulldogs will be staying on the road on Wednesday to face off against the South Dearborn Knights at 7:30 p.m. on February 28th. One thing working in Batesville's favor is that they have posted big point totals in their last four games.
Batesville stacked a seventh blowout win onto their ever-increasing hoard on Thursday. Everything went their way against Shelbyville as Batesville made off with a 70-45 victory. Winning is a bit easier when you outrebound your opponent 11 to 3 on the offensive boards, as Batesville did.
Cade Kaiser and Sam Johnson were among the main playmakers for Batesville as the former scored 16 points along with seven rebounds and the latter dropped a double-double on 19 points and ten rebounds. Jack Grunkemeyer was another key contributor, scoring nine points along with eight rebounds.
Meanwhile, South Dearborn strolled past Switzerland County with points to spare on Friday, taking the game 54-39.
Batesville is on a roll lately: they've won eight of their last nine games, which provided a nice bump to their 17-5 record this season. As for South Dearborn, they pushed their record up to 13-10 with that victory, which was their fourth straight at home.
Batesville couldn't quite finish off South Dearborn in their previous meeting on February 1st and fell 54-51. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of South Dearborn's Brodie Teke, who went 6 for 8 from beyond the arc en route to 20 points and 3 assists. Now that Batesville knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? Check MaxPreps.com after the match to find out.
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