The Firestone Falcons will head out on the road to challenge the Richmond Heights Spartans at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday. The two teams are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.
Last Thursday, Firestone made easy work of North and carried off a 63-43 win. The Falcons pushed the score to 46-24 by the end of the third, a deficit the Vikings cut but never quite recovered from.
Firestone can attribute much of their success to Kennedy Whiting, who posted 22 points. Another player making a difference was Aliza Blair, who scored ten points.
Meanwhile, Richmond Heights had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 28 points) and they went ahead and made it three on Wednesday. They claimed a resounding 56-28 victory over the Lions. Given the Spartans' advantage in MaxPreps' Ohio basketball rankings (they are ranked 215th, while the Lions are ranked 667th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Richmond Heights' win bumped their record up to 12-5. As for Firestone, their victory bumped their record up to 7-10.
Firestone ended up a good deal behind Richmond Heights when the teams last played back in January of 2024, losing 51-32. Can Firestone avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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