The Mission Viejo Diablos will challenge the University Trojans at 4:00 p.m. on Friday. Mission Viejo is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 54.4 points per game this season.
Mission Viejo might be feeling deja-vu: they lost 53-51 to Varsity Opponent, which was the same score (and result) they got the week prior. The Diablos have now taken an 'L' in back-to-back games.
Mission Viejo might have lost, but man, Damian Navarro was a machine: he posted 25 points. That was a full 49% of Mission Viejo's points, marking the fourth time in a row he's earned more than a third of the team's points. Another player making a difference was JD Hill, who scored six points.
Meanwhile, University was not able to break out of their rough patch on Thursday as the team picked up their tenth straight defeat. 2025 welcomed they with a 64-40 loss courtesy of Capistrano Valley. While losing is never fun, the Trojans can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' California basketball rankings (they are ranked 843rd, while the Cougars are ranked 172nd).
University's loss dropped their record down to 3-10. As for Mission Viejo, their defeat dropped their record down to 7-12.
Everything went Mission Viejo's way against University when the teams last played back in December of 2019, as Mission Viejo made off with a 75-52 win. In that matchup, Mission Viejo amassed a halftime lead of 40-20, an impressive feat they'll look to repeat on Friday.
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