After flying high against Normal West last Thursday, Limestone came back down to earth. The Limestone Rockets took a 61-49 hit to the loss column at the hands of the Morton Potters on Saturday. While losing is never fun, the Rockets can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Illinois basketball rankings (they are ranked 134th, while the Potters are ranked 13th).
Limestone's defeat dropped their record down to 12-14. As for Morton, they pushed their record up to 21-4 with the win, which was their 19th straight at home dating back to last season.
Limestone has already played their next contest (against Metamora), but no score has been uploaded at the time of writing. Morton will look to defend their home court on Tuesday against East Peoria at 7:00 p.m. Morton is facing East Peoria at the right time seeing as East Peoria is stuck on a three-game losing streak.
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