Veritas Christian is 1-9 against Kansas City East Christian Academy since December of 2019 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Friday. The Veritas Christian Eagles will head out on the road to challenge the Kansas City East Christian Academy Lions at 8:00 p.m. Veritas Christian is coming into the game on a six-game losing streak.
On Tuesday, Veritas Christian was beaten by Northeast Kansas Nighthawks HomeSchool 70-29. While losing is never fun, Veritas Christian can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Kansas basketball rankings (they are ranked 311th, while Northeast Kansas Nighthawks HomeSchool is ranked 55th).
Meanwhile, Kansas City East Christian Academy pushed their score all the way to 65 on Saturday, but even that wasn't enough to win. They fell 74-65 to Metro Academy. Despite running the score up even higher than they did in their prior game on Friday (61), Kansas City East Christian Academy still had to take the loss.
Despite the defeat, Kansas City East Christian Academy saw an underclassman step up: Maddox Carrillo scored 25 points along with seven rebounds. Another player making a difference was William O'donnell, who scored 13 points.
Veritas Christian dropped their record down to 5-15 with that loss, which was their third straight on the road. As for Kansas City East Christian Academy, this is the second loss in a row for them and nudges their season record down to 22-13.
Veritas Christian was taken down by Kansas City East Christian Academy 88-25 in their previous meeting back in January. That game was all but decided by halftime, at which point Veritas Christian was down 52-18.
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