South Bend St. Joseph is on a three-game streak of home wins, while NorthWood is on a four-game streak of away wins: one of those streaks is about to end. The South Bend St. Joseph Huskies will welcome the NorthWood Panthers at 7:45 p.m. on Tuesday. Hopefully South Bend St. Joseph focused on turnovers this week as the team gave up eight on Friday.
South Bend St. Joseph will bounce into Tuesday's contest after beating Mishawaka Marian, who they had gone 2-7 against in their nine prior meetings. South Bend St. Joseph came out on top against Mishawaka Marian by a score of 55-43. While the Huskies didn't have the best season last year (they finished 7-16), it's starting to look like those struggles are a thing of the past.
Kenadie Schrock was her usual excellent self, going 10 for 20 en route to 27 points plus six steals. With that strong performance, she is now averaging an impressive 15.6 points per game. Alexa Langager was another key player, earning eight points along with five rebounds.
Meanwhile, NorthWood strolled past Concord with points to spare on Friday, taking the game 40-26. Given the Panthers' advantage in MaxPreps' Indiana basketball rankings (they are ranked 34th, while the Minutemen are ranked 228th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
NorthWood's win bumped their record up to 7-1. As for South Bend St. Joseph, their victory bumped their record up to 6-2.
South Bend St. Joseph suffered a grim 47-21 defeat to NorthWood in their previous matchup back in December of 2023. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of NorthWood's Claire Payne, who dropped a double-double on ten points and 12 rebounds. Now that South Bend St. Joseph 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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