The West Cabarrus Wolverines will wrap up 2024 with a road trip to face off against the East Lincoln Mustangs at 7:00 p.m. on Monday. Both teams are coming into the matchup red-hot, with West Cabarrus sitting on four straight wins and East Lincoln on three.
West Cabarrus will head into Saturday's contest hoping to keep the good times rolling: they proved they can win big on Friday (they won by 30) and on Saturday they proved they can win the close ones too. They narrowly escaped with a victory as the team sidled past Christ the King 39-37. The win was all the more spectacular given the Wolverines' disadvantage in MaxPreps' North Carolina basketball rankings (they are ranked 212th, while the Crusaders are ranked 98th).
Meanwhile, you can't lose the game if you win every quarter, and that was precisely East Lincoln's strategy against Central Cabarrus on Saturday. Given that consistent dominance, it should come as no surprise that East Lincoln blew Central Cabarrus out of the water with a 63-22 final score. With the Mustangs ahead 39-10 at the half, the game was all but over already.
West Cabarrus is on a roll lately: they've won five of their last six matches, which provided a nice bump to their 9-3 record this season. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 59.5 points per game. As for East Lincoln, they pushed their record up to 7-3 with the victory, which was their third straight at home.
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