The Red Oak Hawks will take on the White Longhorns at 6:30 p.m. on Friday. Both squads will be entering this one on the heels of a big victory.
Red Oak is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Tuesday. They blew past Lake Belton 66-42. The Hawks are really starting to get used to good results now that the team has won 12 straight.
Journee Hodges
| 02/11/25 vs Lake Belton | 75% |
| 02/04/25 vs Crandall | 50% |
| 01/28/25 @ Ennis | 0% |
Red Oak can attribute much of their success to Kierstyn Totten, who went 10-for-17 to rack up 22 points and eight rebounds, and Journee Hodges, who went 7-for-14 on her way to 19 points along with six boards and six steals. Thanks to that strong game, Hodges now owns an excellent 57.1% three-point shooting accuracy. Kenedi Griffin was another key player, putting up 11 points in addition to five rebounds and five steals.
Red Oak was working as a unit and finished the game with 20 assists. That's the most assists they've managed all season.
Meanwhile, White had already won nine in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 54.2 points) and they went ahead and made it ten on Tuesday. They blew past the Wranglers 55-12. Given the Longhorns' advantage in MaxPreps' Texas basketball rankings (they are ranked 344th, while the Wranglers are ranked 856th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Red Oak better keep an eye on Dany Diaz. She was instrumental in White's win, going 11-for-19 en route to 29 points and six steals. Diaz has become a key player for White: the team is 12-2 when she posts at least five steals, but 5-7 otherwise. The team also got some help courtesy of Portia Danso, who posted ten points and eight boards.
White pushed their record up to 17-9 with the win, which was their seventh straight on the road. Those victories came thanks in part to their defensive effort, having only surrendered 17.0 points over those games. As for Red Oak, their victory bumped their record up to 21-11.
Red Oak came up short against White in their previous meeting back in November of 2024, falling 60-56. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Diaz, who dropped a double-double with 33 points and ten rebounds. Now that Red Oak knows the damage she can cause, will they be able to stop her this time? There's only one way to find out.
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