The Coalfield Yellow Jackets will take on the Greenback Cherokees at 6:00 p.m. on Friday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Coalfield has eight straight victories, Greenback has 14 straight losses), but none of that matters once you're on the court.
While Coalfield didn't have the best season last year (they finished 2-19), it's starting to look like those struggles are a thing of the past. They walked away with a 45-37 win over Knoxville Central on Friday. Given the Yellow Jackets' advantage in MaxPreps' Tennessee basketball rankings (they are ranked 72nd, while the Bobcats are ranked 225th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Meanwhile, Greenback might have been a little too into the holiday spirit, gifting Oakdale an easy 53-28 victory.
Greenback's defeat dropped their record down to 0-10. As for Coalfield, their win bumped their record up to 10-3.
Coalfield came up short against Greenback when the teams last played back in January, falling 53-48. Can Coalfield avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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