A feisty cat fight will be fought when the Kirbyville Wildcats challenge the Liberty Panthers at 5:00 p.m. on Friday... Kirbyville is looking for their season's first victory.
Kirbyville is headed in fresh off scoring the most points they have all season. They lost 61-40 to Buna on Tuesday. While losing is never fun, the Wildcats can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Texas basketball rankings (they are ranked 1185th, while the Cougars are ranked 533rd).
Meanwhile, Liberty sure made it a nail-biter, but they managed to escape with a 46-44 win over Hargrave on Tuesday. The victory made it back-to-back wins for the Panthers.
Liberty's win came from a few key players Kirbyville will need to keep an eye on. One of the most notable was Bryana Pantallion, who posted 14 points in addition to eight boards and five steals. She has been hot recently, having posted four or more steals the last three times she's played. The team also got some help courtesy of Lyric Brown, who went 5 of 11 on her way to 15 points along with five boards and three steals.
Liberty is on a roll lately: they've won three of their last four matches, which provided a nice bump to their 9-7 record this season. As for Kirbyville, their defeat dropped their record down to 0-7.
Kirbyville suffered a grim 48-24 defeat to Liberty in their previous meeting back in December of 2022. Can Kirbyville avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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