The Barbers Hill Eagles and the Lamar Consolidated Mustangs, after both having extra time off, will shake off the rust and duke it out at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Keep an eye on the score for this one: the two teams posted some lofty point totals in their previous games.
Barbers Hill is headed into the matchup having just suffered their biggest defeat since November 8, 2024 last Friday. They lost 81-60 to Houston Christian. While losing is never fun, the Eagles can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Texas basketball rankings (they are ranked 246th, while the Mustangs are ranked seventh).
Meanwhile, Lamar Consolidated came tearing into last Thursday's contest with six straight wins (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 22.3 points), and they left with even more momentum. They really took it to the Tigers for the full four quarters, racking up a 63-27 win. 63 seems to be a good number for the Mustangs as the squad scooped up a victory with the same number of points in their previous game.
Barbers Hill better focus on containing Edgar Garcia and Cordel Bonney as the pair were huge in Lamar Consolidated's win. Garcia shot 75% from the field en route to 14 points, while Bonney went 6-for-8 to rack up 14 points. Bonney continues to improve, besting his previous point total in each of the last three games he's played. The team also got some help courtesy of Kai Aitch, who posted five points.
Lamar Consolidated was working as a unit and finished the game with 15 assists. The team's really been improving in that area: they've now improved their assist total in three consecutive games.
Lamar Consolidated's win bumped their record up to 11-4. As for Barbers Hill, their loss was their third straight on the road, which dropped their record down to 11-9.
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