The Casa Roble Rams will square off against the Dixon Rams at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday. Casa Roble knows how to get points on the board -- the squad has finished with 55 points or more in their past 12 matchups -- so hopefully Dixon likes a good challenge.
Casa Roble will bounce into Thursday's contest after beating Natomas, who they had gone 0-4 against in their four prior meetings. Casa Roble sure made it a nail-biter, but they managed to escape with a 56-54 victory over Natomas on Tuesday.
The match pitted two dominant guards against one another in Benny Ambriz and Manno Jenkins. Ambriz had a great game and dropped a double-double with 20 points and ten rebounds. Meanwhile, Jenkins was balling out in the loss, putting up 17 points and five steals.
Meanwhile, Dixon had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 15 points) and they went ahead and made it three on Tuesday. They came within a single point of losing the streak, but they secured a 58-57 W against the Eagles.
Casa Roble is on a roll lately: they've won 11 of their last 12 games, which provided a nice bump to their 23-4 record this season. A key ingredient in that success has been their performance when it comes to three-point shooting accuracy: their three-point shooting accuracy was 35.8% in those games and 26.7% outside of them. As for Dixon, they pushed their record up to 16-10 with the win, which was their third straight at home.
Everything came up roses for Casa Roble against Dixon in their previous meeting back in January, as the team secured a 73-44 victory. Does Casa Roble have another victory up their sleeve, or will Dixon turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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