The Yuba City Honkers will venture away from home to take on the Placer Hillmen at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday. Expect the scorekeeper to be kept busy: if their previous games are any indication, the two teams will really light up the scoreboard.
Having struggled with four defeats in a row, Yuba City turned things around against Del Campo on Tuesday. They skirted past the Cougars 62-60.
Meanwhile, Placer entered their tilt with Twelve Bridges on Tuesday with ten consecutive wins but they'll enter their next game with 11. They walked away with a 67-56 win over the Raging Rhinos. Given the Hillmen's advantage in MaxPreps' California basketball rankings (they are ranked 80th, while the Raging Rhinos are ranked 214th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Placer has also been performing incredibly well recently as they've won 13 of their last 14 matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 18-2 record this season. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 73.4 points per game. As for Yuba City, their victory was their first in the league, bumping their league record up to 1-3 and their overall record up to 7-13.
Yuba City was taken down by Placer 78-46 in their previous matchup back in January of 2024. That contest was all but decided by halftime, at which point Yuba City was down 41-19.
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