The Pine Tree Pirates will take on the Kilgore Bulldogs at 7:30 p.m. on Friday. Both are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.
On Tuesday, Pine Tree humbled Spring Hill with a 53-18 victory. Given the Pirates' advantage in MaxPreps' Texas basketball rankings (they are ranked 560th, while the Panthers are ranked 1221st), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Kilgore). They simply couldn't be stopped on Friday as they easily beat Cumberland Academy 83-40. The win made it back-to-back victories for the Bulldogs.
Pine Tree has also been performing well recently as they've won five of their last six matchups, which provided a massive bump to their 17-11 record this season. The wins came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 56.5 points per game. As for Kilgore, they pushed their record up to 8-12 with the victory, which was their fifth straight at home.
Pine Tree and Kilgore were neck-and-neck in their previous meeting on January 7th, but Pine Tree came up empty-handed after a 42-41 defeat. Can Pine Tree avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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