The Taylorville Tornadoes will challenge the Triad Knights at 6:00 p.m. on Friday. Each of these teams will be fighting to keep a win streak alive as Taylorville comes in on three and Triad on eight.
Taylorville is headed into the match after thoroughly thrashing Roxana: they outscored them in every quarter. Everything went Taylorville's way against Roxana on Tuesday as Taylorville made off with a 53-29 win.
Given that consistent dominance, it should come as no surprise that Triad blew Marquette Catholic out of the water with a 45-15 final score. Given the Knights' advantage in MaxPreps' Illinois basketball rankings (they are ranked 63rd, while the Explorers are ranked 372nd), the result on Tuesday wasn't entirely unexpected.
Triad is also on a roll lately: they've won nine of their last ten games, which provided a nice bump to their 16-5 record this season. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 55.1 points per game. As for Taylorville, they pushed their record up to 11-8 with the victory, which was their fourth straight at home.
Taylorville took a serious blow against Triad in their previous matchup back in November of 2022, falling 69-27. Can Taylorville avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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