Vandalia and Carlinville are an even 5-5 against one another since November of 2015, but not for long. The Vandalia Vandals are taking a road trip to take on the Carlinville Cavaliers at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday.
Vandalia will head out to face Carlinville after giving up their first home loss of the season on Tuesday. Vandalia fell to Roxana 52-47.
Meanwhile, Carlinville had already won three in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 16.7 points) and they went ahead and made it four on Wednesday. They took their match with ease, bagging a 53-24 win over the Minutemen. Given the Cavaliers' advantage in MaxPreps' Illinois basketball rankings (they are ranked 144th, while the Minutemen are ranked 545th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Carlinville's victory bumped their record up to 6-1. As for Vandalia, their defeat ended a five-game streak of wins at home dating back to last season and dropped them to 7-2.
Vandalia was dealt a bruising 65-22 loss at the hands of Carlinville when the teams last played back in November of 2023. That contest was all but decided by halftime, at which point Vandalia was down 42-4.
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