The Pleasant Hope Pirates lost against the Southern Missouri RUSH * back in December of 2022, and unfortunately they wound up with the same result on Thursday. Pleasant Hope took a 53-42 hit to the loss column at the hands of Southern Missouri RUSH. While losing is never fun, Pleasant Hope can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Missouri basketball rankings (they are ranked 103rd, while Southern Missouri RUSH is ranked 32nd).
Multiple players turned in solid performances to lead Southern Missouri RUSH to victory, but perhaps none more so than Hannah Gibbons, who scored 21 points along with 5 rebounds and 4 steals. That makes it six consecutive games in which Gibbons has scored at least 25% of Southern Missouri RUSH's points. Another player making a difference was Lillian Mindeman, who scored 13 points along with 4 steals.
Pleasant Hope now has a losing record at 2-3. As for Southern Missouri RUSH, the victory was the third in a row for them, bringing their record for this year to 5-1.
Pleasant Hope will head out on the road to face off against School of the Ozarks at 6:45 p.m. on Thursday. Southern Missouri RUSH will be staying on the road on Friday to face off against Jasper at 8:30 p.m. on December 1st. Jasper is coming into the game hot, having won their last three games.
