The Cottonwood Bears lost against the Carroll Eagles back in November of 2022, and unfortunately they wound up with the same result on Monday. Cottonwood was beaten by Carroll 67-34. Cottonwood has not had much luck with Carroll recently, as the team's come up short the last three times they've met.
Peyton Plott continued his habit of posting crazy stat lines for Carroll, scoring 23 points along with five steals. Those 23 points set a new season-high mark for him. The team also got some help courtesy of N'jia Gosha, who dropped a double-double on 12 points and ten rebounds.
Cottonwood now has a losing record at 5-6. As for Carroll, the win (which was their fourth in a row) raised their record to 10-2.
Cottonwood will get a bit of extra time to process the loss as their next game is a ways off. They'll take on Graceville at 7:30 p.m. on January 4, 2024. Carroll won't have much time to rest: their next match is against Luverne at 7:00 p.m. on December 19th.