The South Plainfield Tigers will head out to challenge the North Brunswick North Brunswick Raiders at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday.
South Plainfield is headed into Tuesday's match hungry for a win as their strong season has now been derailed by two straight losses. They took a 60-51 hit to the loss column at the hands of Immaculata on Saturday. While losing is never fun, the Tigers can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' New Jersey basketball rankings (they are ranked 129th, while the Spartans are ranked 37th).
North Brunswick hasn't had quite the year their fans were hoping for to this point, but back-to-back wins may be a sign of good things to come. They came out on top against Timothy Christian by a score of 54-45 on Saturday.
South Plainfield's defeat dropped their record down to 12-5. As for North Brunswick, their victory ended a three-game drought at home and bumped them up to 7-12.
South Plainfield didn't have too much breathing room in their game against North Brunswick in their previous meeting on January 9th, but they still walked away with a 49-44 win. The rematch might be a little tougher for South Plainfield since the squad won't have the home-court advantage this time around. We'll see if the change in venue makes a difference.
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