The Lake Highland Prep Highlanders will challenge the Auburndale Bloodhounds at 3:00 p.m. on Saturday. Both teams are coming into the contest red-hot, with Lake Highland Prep sitting on eight straight wins and Auburndale on seven.
If Auburndale heads into halftime all tied up, they better play a good second half: that's when Lake Highland Prep took over last week. Lake Highland Prep took down Lake Brantley 63-48 on Friday. Given the Highlanders' advantage in MaxPreps' Florida basketball rankings (they are ranked 30th, while the Patriots are ranked 126th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Meanwhile, Auburndale narrowly escaped with a victory as the team sidled past Haines City 39-36.
Lake Highland Prep is also on a roll lately: they've won 11 of their last 12 matches, which provided a nice bump to their 19-4 record this season. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 58.8 points per game. As for Auburndale, they pushed their record up to 19-5 with the win, which was their seventh straight on the road.
Everything went Lake Highland Prep's way against Auburndale in their previous meeting back in February of 2022, as Lake Highland Prep made off with a 74-52 victory. Will Lake Highland Prep repeat their success, or does Auburndale have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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