The Montclair Mounties will head out on the road to take on the Bloomfield Bengals at 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Montclair knows how to get points on the board -- the squad has finished with 55 points or more in their past three matchups -- so hopefully Bloomfield likes a good challenge.
Last Saturday, Montclair came up short against Piscataway and fell 65-55. While losing is never fun, the Mounties can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' New Jersey basketball rankings (they are ranked 152nd, while the Chiefs are ranked 42nd).
Meanwhile, Bloomfield had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 14 points) and they went ahead and made it three on Thursday. They were the clear victor by a 59-36 margin over the Eagles. The Bengals pushed the score to 46-18 by the end of the third, a deficit the Eagles cut but never quite recovered from.
Bloomfield pushed their record up to 10-8 with the victory, which was their third straight at home. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 59.3 points per game. As for Montclair, their defeat dropped their record down to 8-10.
Montclair came up short against Bloomfield when the teams last played back in January, falling 83-76. Can Montclair avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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