The Brookeland Wildcats and the Shelbyville Dragons will round out the year against one another at at 8:00 p.m. on Thursday. Brookeland is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 72.2 points per game this season.
It was a proper cat-fight when Brookeland took on High Island on Friday. Brookeland simply couldn't be stopped as they easily beat High Island 113-9. With the Wildcats ahead 70-5 at the half, the game was all but over already.
Brookeland's success was spearheaded by the efforts of Landon Smith, who went 18 of 25 en route to 40 points along with six assists and five steals, and Cade Morgan, who went 10 of 14 en route to 27 points along with seven rebounds and six steals. That makes it three consecutive games in which Smith has scored at least a third of Brookeland's points. The team also got some help courtesy of Zack Beatty, who went 8 of 11 on his way to 16 points and six steals.
Brookeland smashed the offensive glass and finished the game with 18 offensive boards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now pulled down at least ten offensive rebounds in 15 consecutive contests.
Meanwhile, Shelbyville had already won six in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 9.8 points) and they went ahead and made it seven on Friday. They walked away with a 50-42 victory over the Owls. Given the Dragons' advantage in MaxPreps' Texas basketball rankings (they are ranked 192nd, while the Owls are ranked 391st), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Shelbyville's win was their seventh straight at home dating back to last season, which pushed their record up to 9-2. The wins came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 52.4 points per game. As for Brookeland, they are on a roll lately: they've won four of their last five matches, which provided a nice bump to their 10-5 record this season.
Brookeland was taken down by Shelbyville 64-34 when the teams last played back in December of 2022. Can Brookeland avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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