Stone Bridge and Briar Woods are an even 5-5 against one another since January of 2021, but not for long. The Stone Bridge Bulldogs will head out on the road to take on the Briar Woods Falcons at 6:00 p.m. on Friday. Stone Bridge will have to bring their A-game into this one, as they are staring down a pretty big deficit in the MaxPreps Virginia Rankings (they are ranked 50th, while Briar Woods is ranked sixth).
It can be hard to translate regular season success to the playoffs, but Stone Bridge had no problem doing just that on Wednesday. They managed a 47-42 win over the Panthers. The victory made it back-to-back wins for Stone Bridge.
Meanwhile, Briar Woods had already won 13 in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 23.3 points), and they went ahead and made it 14 on Wednesday. They took down Lightridge 52-37.
Briar Woods can attribute much of their success to Hope Drake, who scored nine points along with seven assists, and Giuliana Bohmer, who scored 15 points. Another player making a difference was Noelle Cabiness, who scored nine points.
Stone Bridge's win bumped their record up to 18-6. As for Briar Woods, they pushed their record up to 24-1 with that win, which was their eighth straight at home.
Stone Bridge came up short against Briar Woods when the teams last played on Friday, falling 43-34. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Drake, who scored 15 points along with five assists and five rebounds. Now that Stone Bridge knows the damage she can cause, will they be able to stop her this time? Check MaxPreps.com after the match to find out.
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