Moon Area is 0-4 against Mt. Lebanon since December of 2014 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Monday. The Moon Area Tigers will head out on the road to challenge the Mt. Lebanon Blue Devils at 7:30 p.m. Both teams are coming into the matchup red-hot, with Moon Area sitting on 16 straight wins and Mt. Lebanon on five.
Last Thursday, Moon Area made easy work of Mars and carried off a 74-48 win. 74 seems to be a good number for Moon Area as the team scooped up a win with the same number of points in their previous game.
Meanwhile, Mt. Lebanon stacked an eighth blowout win onto their ever-increasing hoard on Tuesday. They claimed a resounding 57-22 win over Norwin at home. Given Mt. Lebanon's advantage in MaxPreps' Pennsylvania basketball rankings (they are ranked 14th, while Norwin is ranked 306th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Moon Area's victory was their seventh straight at home, which pushed their record up to 17-2. As for Mt. Lebanon, they are on a roll lately: they've won seven of their last eight matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 17-3 record this season.
Moon Area suffered a grim 73-49 defeat to Mt. Lebanon in their previous meeting back in February of 2023. Can Moon Area avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.