The Sloan-Hendrix Greyhounds will face off against the Marked Tree Indians at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Both squads will be entering this one on the heels of a big victory.
Marked Tree will be up against a hot Sloan-Hendrix team: the squad just extended their winning streak to five. Sloan-Hendrix took their contest on Saturday with ease, bagging a 57-25 victory over Walnut Ridge. Given the Greyhounds' advantage in MaxPreps' Arkansas basketball rankings (they are ranked 22nd, while the Bobcats are ranked 188th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Maynard typically has all the answers at home, but on Monday Marked Tree proved too difficult a challenge. They simply couldn't be stopped as they easily beat the Tigers 48-20. Winning may never get old, but the Indians sure are getting used to it with their third in a row.
Sloan-Hendrix pushed their record up to 28-3 with the win, which was their fifth straight on the road. They've dominated over that stretch too, winning by an average of 27.2 points. As for Marked Tree, their victory bumped their record up to 20-5.
Sloan-Hendrix couldn't quite finish off Marked Tree when the teams last played back in December of 2022 and fell 43-40. Can Sloan-Hendrix avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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