The Sunrise Mountain Miners will head out to challenge the Valley Vikings at 6:30 p.m. on Monday. Sunrise Mountain has now lost nine straight, leaving the team hunting for their first win since December 26.
Sunrise Mountain came up short against Green Valley on Wednesday, falling 59-39. While losing is never fun, the Miners can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Nevada basketball rankings (they are ranked 87th, while the Gators are ranked 31st).
Meanwhile, Valley was just a bucket shy of victory on Friday and fell 73-72 to Las Vegas. Despite running the score up even higher than they did in their prior game on Wednesday (70), the Vikings still had to take the loss.
Valley has traveled a rocky road recently having lost three of their last four matchups, which put a noticeable dent in their 9-13 record this season. Those losses can't be blamed on the team's offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 65.3 points per game. As for Sunrise Mountain, their defeat dropped their record down to 4-17.
Sunrise Mountain came up short against Valley in their previous matchup on January 6th, falling 73-61. Can Sunrise Mountain avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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