The Avon Lake Shoremen and the Barberton Magics will round out the year against one another at at 12:00 p.m. on Friday. Expect the scorekeeper to be kept busy: if their previous games are any indication, both will really light up the scoreboard.
Last Friday, Avon Lake came up short against Steele and fell 81-71. Despite running the score up even higher than they did in their prior game on Tuesday (61), the Shoremen still had to take the loss.
Meanwhile, Barberton had already won three in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 13.3 points) and they went ahead and made it four on Friday. They strolled past the Black Tigers with points to spare, taking the game 62-46. Given the Magics' advantage in MaxPreps' Ohio basketball rankings (they are ranked 230th, while the Black Tigers are ranked 498th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Avon Lake dropped their record down to 1-6 with the loss, which was their sixth straight on the road dating back to last season. As for Barberton, their win bumped their record up to 5-2.
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