It'll be a Battle of the Birds when the Snook Bluejays duke it out with the Hearne Eagles at 6:30 p.m. on Friday... Both squads will be entering this one on the heels of a big victory.
Hearne will be up against a hot Snook squad: the team just extended their winning streak to three. Snook simply couldn't be stopped on Monday as they easily beat KOR Education School 67-28. The Bluejays pushed the score to 57-20 by the end of the third, a deficit the Knight had no chance of recovering from.
Meanwhile, Hearne had already won four in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 15.5 points) and they went ahead and made it five on Thursday. They blew past the Panthers, posting a 76-29 victory. Given the Eagles' advantage in MaxPreps' Texas basketball rankings (they are ranked 491st, while the Panthers are ranked 1274th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Snook's win was their third straight at home, which pushed their record up to 15-10. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 57.3 points per game. As for Hearne, they have been performing incredibly well recently as they've won 11 of their last 12 games, which provided a nice bump to their 20-4 record this season.
Snook suffered a grim 59-38 defeat to Hearne when the teams last played back in December of 2024. Can Snook avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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