The Cypress Lake Panthers will take on the Island Coast Gators at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday. Both have had a bumpy ride up to this point with four consecutive losses for Cypress Lake and three for Island Coast.
It was a proper cat-fight when Cypress Lake duked it out withNorth Port on Monday. Cypress Lake was beaten by North Port 56-28. While losing is never fun, the Panthers can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Florida basketball rankings (they are ranked 638th, while the Bobcats are ranked 312th).
Meanwhile, Island Coast played a tough game on Tuesday in which they were outscored in every quarter. They came up short against Estero, falling 60-36. The Gators were down 52-23 at the end of the third quarter, which was just too much to recover from.
Cypress Lake's loss dropped their record down to 1-17. As for Island Coast, their defeat dropped their record down to 6-16.
Cypress Lake took a serious blow against Island Coast in their previous meeting two weeks ago, falling 48-16. Can Cypress Lake avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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