Western Plains/Healy is 0-8 against Weskan since February of 2017 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Friday. Western Plains/Healy will head out on the road to square off against the Weskan Coyotes at 5:00 p.m. Western Plains/Healy is no doubt hoping to put an end to a four-game streak of away losses.
After soaring to 61 points the game before, Western Plains/Healy were a bit more limited in their matchup on Friday. They were dealt a 55-21 loss at the hands of Dighton. While losing is never fun, Western Plains/Healy can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Kansas basketball rankings (they are ranked 347th, while Dighton is ranked 98th).
In what's become a running theme this season, Weskan gave their fans yet another huge victory on Tuesday. They claimed a resounding 74-40 victory over Greeley County at home. Weskan pushed the score to 72-34 by the end of the third, a deficit Greeley County cut but never quite recovered from.
Weskan's success was the result of a balanced attack that saw several players step up, but Trey Allen led the charge by scoring 17 points. Allen is crushing the point category: he's posted at least 17 every time he's taken the court this season. Another player making a difference was Nick Cottrell, who scored 15 points.
Western Plains/Healy's defeat dropped their record down to 1-8. As for Weskan, the win made it two in a row for them and bumps their season record up to 12-7.
Western Plains/Healy was dealt a bruising 71-43 defeat at the hands of Weskan when the teams last played back in January. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Allen, who dropped a double-double on 28 points and ten rebounds. Now that Western Plains/Healy knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? There's only one way to find out.
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