The Person Rockets will take on the Eastern Alamance Eagles at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday. Both teams are coming into the matchup red-hot, with Person sitting on 11 straight wins and Eastern Alamance on three.
Person is headed into the game having just posted their closest victory since December 28, 2023 on Tuesday. They sure made it a nail-biter, but they managed to escape with a 55-53 win over Orange.
Meanwhile, Eastern Alamance made easy work of Williams on Tuesday and carried off an 80-59 victory. Given the Eagles' advantage in MaxPreps' North Carolina basketball rankings (they are ranked 147th, while the Bulldogs are ranked 314th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Eastern Alamance's win bumped their record up to 16-8. As for Person, their victory bumped their record up to 24-2.
Person was able to grind out a solid win over Eastern Alamance when the teams last played two weeks ago, winning 77-68. One of the biggest obstacles the team faced in that game was Eastern Alamance's Ja'Vier Tinnin, who went 7-for-10 en route to 25 points along with six assists and four steals. Now that he's got a second chance to win this matchup, will Person still be able to contain Tinnin? There's only one way to find out.
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