The Hickory Ridge Ragin' Bulls will challenge the Ragsdale Tigers at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Hickory Ridge knows how to get points on the board -- the team has finished with 55 points or more in their past five matches -- so hopefully Ragsdale likes a good challenge.
Last Friday, Hickory Ridge came up short against Lake Norman and fell 68-56. While losing is never fun, the Ragin' Bulls can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' North Carolina basketball rankings (they are ranked 65th, while the Wildcats are ranked tenth).
The match pitted two dominant guards against one another in Ma-Kaela Gidney and Samantha Shehan. Shehan had a solid game and posted 13 points and six rebounds. Meanwhile, Gidney was balling out in the loss, to rack up 22 points and five steals.
Meanwhile, Ragsdale suffered their closest defeat since January 24th on Tuesday. They fell just short of Northern Guilford by a score of 50-48.
Hickory Ridge will need to focus on slowing down Aaliya Boddie, one of several Ragsdale players who made an impact when they last played. She put up 12 points. The team also got some help courtesy of Brooke Parker, who had 12 points.
Ragsdale's loss dropped their record down to 16-9. As for Hickory Ridge, their defeat dropped their record down to 19-8.
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