The Millwood Bobcats will take on the West End Christian Crusaders at 6:45 p.m. on Tuesday. Hopefully Millwood focused on turnovers this week as the team gave up ten on Thursday.
West End Christian is facing Millwood at the wrong time: Millwood suffered their first home loss of the season on Thursday and they're likely out for redemption. They fell just short of Banner Christian by a score of 43-40.
Despite the loss, Millwood got top-tier performance from Griffin Aktalay, who scored 19 points plus five rebounds and two steals. That was a full 47.5% of Millwood's points, marking the fourth time in a row he's had more than a third of the team's points. The team also got some help courtesy of Hazem Elkarim, who posted six points in addition to ten rebounds and two steals.
Even though they lost, Millwood smashed the offensive glass and finished the game with 22 offensive rebounds. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now pulled down at least eight offensive rebounds in three consecutive games.
Meanwhile, West End Christian had just enough and edged Farmville Homeschool out 40-37 on Friday. That's two games straight that the Crusaders have won by exactly three points.
The victory made it two in a row for West End Christian and bumps their season record up to 2-0. As for Millwood, their defeat dropped their record down to 2-2.
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