A feisty cat fight will be fought when the Temple Tigers challenge the Newnan Cougars at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday... Temple knows how to get points on the board -- the squad has finished with 55 points or more in their past seven contests -- so hopefully Newnan likes a good challenge.
Temple is probably headed into the match with a chip on their shoulder considering South Paulding just ended the team's four-game winning streak on Saturday. They fell to the Spartans 63-58.
Meanwhile, Newnan had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 16.5 points) and they went ahead and made it three last Tuesday. They came out on top against the Cavaliers by a score of 51-42. Given the Cougars' advantage in MaxPreps' Georgia basketball rankings (they are ranked 116th, while the Cavaliers are ranked 443rd), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Temple's loss dropped their record down to 7-3. As for Newnan, their win bumped their record up to 8-1.
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