The Yucca Valley Trojans and the Torrance Tartars will face off at 9:00 p.m. on Saturday without much rest having both just played.
Yucca Valley's tournament run continued when they took on Laguna Beach on Friday. Yucca Valley had to suffer through a 75-20 loss at the hands of Laguna Beach. The Trojans have now taken an 'L' in back-to-back games.
Meanwhile, Torrance had already won five in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 8.4 points) and they went ahead and made it six on Friday. They walked away with a 61-52 victory over the Blackhawks. Given the Tartars' advantage in MaxPreps' California basketball rankings (they are ranked 256th, while the Blackhawks are ranked 651st), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Torrance has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won ten of their last 11 matches, which provided a nice bump to their 13-3 record this season. The wins came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 67.8 points per game. As for Yucca Valley, their defeat dropped their record down to 1-10.
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