Santa Margarita hasn't had much luck against Mater Dei recently, but that could start to change on Tuesday. The Santa Margarita Eagles will challenge the Mater Dei Monarchs at 6:00 p.m. Keep an eye on the score for this one: the two teams posted some lofty point totals in their previous games.
Last Saturday, Santa Margarita earned a 64-54 victory over San Jacinto. Given the Eagles' advantage in MaxPreps' California basketball rankings (they are ranked 49th, while the Tigers are ranked 167th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Meanwhile, Mater Dei had already won 11 in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 37.3 points) and they went ahead and made it 12 on Saturday. They took their game with ease, bagging an 82-43 win over the Eagles. The Monarchs pushed the score to 60-31 by the end of the third, a deficit the Eagles had little chance of recovering from.
Mater Dei has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won 16 of their last 17 matches, which provided a nice bump to their 23-2 record this season. As for Santa Margarita, their victory bumped their record up to 17-7.
Santa Margarita took a serious blow against Mater Dei in their previous matchup two weeks ago, falling 74-26. Can Santa Margarita avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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