The Albion Purple Eagles will head out on the road to challenge the Le Roy Oatkan Knights at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday. Albion is no doubt hoping to put an end to a five-game streak of away losses dating back to last season.
It's never fun to lose, and it's even less fun to lose 76-34, which was the final score in Albion's tilt against Warsaw on Saturday. While losing is never fun, Albion can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' New York basketball rankings (they are ranked 808th, while Warsaw is ranked 383rd).
Meanwhile, you can't lose the contest if you win every quarter, and that was precisely Le Roy's strategy against Pavilion on Monday. Given that consistent dominance, it should come as no surprise that Le Roy blew Pavilion out of the water with a 66-37 final score. Le Roy pushed the score to 55-31 by the end of the third, a deficit Pavilion had little chance of recovering from.
It was another big night for Merritt Holly Jr., who dropped a double-double on 32 points and 14 rebounds. The team also got some help courtesy of Jean Agosto, who almost dropped a double-double on nine points and 13 rebounds.
Albion's loss dropped their record down to 1-9. As for Le Roy, they are on a roll lately: they've won ten of their last 13 contests, which provided a nice bump to their 14-5 record this season.
Albion was dealt a bruising 71-44 loss at the hands of Le Roy in their previous meeting back in December of 2022. That contest was all but decided by halftime, at which point Albion was down 43-23.
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