Edwin O. Smith and Conard are an even 3-3 against one another since December of 2017, but not for long. The Edwin O. Smith Panthers will venture away from home to face off against the Conard Red Wolves at 6:45 p.m. on Friday.
Edwin O. Smith is headed into the contest out to prove that what happened against Berlin on Monday (when they were outscored in every quarter) was just a minor bump in the road. Edwin O. Smith came up short against Berlin, falling 56-36. While losing is never fun, the Panthers can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Connecticut basketball rankings (they are ranked 75th, while the Redcoats are ranked 13th).
Meanwhile, Conard had already won five in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 18.2 points) and they went ahead and made it six on Tuesday. In a tight match that could have gone either way, they made off with a 2-1 win over the Lancers. The two-point effort marked the Red Wolves' lowest-scoring game of the season, but in the end it didn't matter.
Conard pushed their record up to 7-1 with the victory, which was their fifth straight at home dating back to last season. As for Edwin O. Smith, this is the second loss in a row for them and nudges their season record down to 2-7.
Edwin O. Smith ended up a good deal behind Conard in their previous meeting back in February of 2024, losing 74-57. Can Edwin O. Smith avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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