The Watson Chapel Wildcats will take on the Stuttgart Ricebirds at 5:30 p.m. on Friday. Expect the scorekeeper to be kept busy: if their previous games are any indication, both will really light up the scoreboard.
Watson Chapel is probably headed into the matchup with a chip on their shoulder considering De Queen just ended the team's eight-game winning streak on Friday. They fell 72-63 to the Leopards. While losing is never fun, the Wildcats can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Arkansas basketball rankings (they are ranked 49th, while the Leopards are ranked fourth).
Meanwhile, there's no place like home for Stuttgart, who bounced back after a loss on the road on Monday. They walked away with a 72-64 victory over Star City on Tuesday. The Ricebirds pushed the score to 57-36 by the end of the third, a deficit the Bulldogs cut but never quite recovered from.
Stuttgart is on a roll lately: they've won nine of their last 12 games, which provided a nice bump to their 12-8 record this season. As for Watson Chapel, their defeat ended a six-game streak of wins at home and dropped them to 12-4.
Watson Chapel didn't have too much breathing room in their contest against Stuttgart in their previous meeting back in February of 2024, but they still walked away with a 62-57 win. Will Watson Chapel repeat their success, or does Stuttgart have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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