The Berkeley Yellowjackets will head out on the road to challenge the Hayward Farmers at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Berkeley will be strutting in after a win while Hayward will be coming in after a defeat.
Berkeley is headed in fresh off scoring the most points they have all season. They put the hurt on San Lorenzo with a sharp 72-49 victory on Thursday. The Yellowjackets pushed the score to 58-30 by the end of the third, a deficit the Grizzlies cut but never quite recovered from.
Meanwhile, Hayward played a tough game on Thursday in which they were outscored in every quarter. They lost 56-30 to Encinal. While losing is never fun, the Farmers can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' California basketball rankings (they are ranked 1000th, while the Jets are ranked 369th).
Berkeley's win ended a 12-game drought on the road dating back to last season and puts them at 5-15. As for Hayward, their loss was their fourth straight at home, which dropped their record down to 5-16.
Berkeley and Hayward were neck-and-neck in their previous meeting back in January, but Berkeley came up empty-handed after a 32-31 defeat. Can Berkeley avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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