The Mena Bearcats and the Two Rivers Gators will compete for holiday cheer at 7:00 p.m. on Monday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Mena has three straight wins, Two Rivers has five straight losses), but none of that matters once you're on the court.
If Mena beats Two Rivers with 63 points on Monday, it's going to be the team's new lucky number: they've won their past two matches with that exact score. Mena escaped with a win on Tuesday against Greenwood by the margin of a single free throw, 63-62. While the Bearcats didn't have the best season last year (they finished 4-21), it's starting to look like those struggles are a thing of the past.
Meanwhile, Two Rivers was just a bucket shy of victory on Friday and fell 51-50 to Glen Rose.
Mena's victory bumped their record up to 5-2. As for Two Rivers, their defeat dropped their record down to 1-10.
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