Two dominant guards in Aniyah Shields and Jordan Pete are getting ready to go toe-to-toe. The Warren Warriors will venture away from home to take on the Sotomayor WILDCATS at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Both squads will be entering this one on the heels of a big victory.
Sotomayor will be up against a hot Warren squad: the team just extended their winning streak to four. Warren put the hurt on Taft with a sharp 61-38 victory on Wednesday. Given the Warriors' advantage in MaxPreps' Texas basketball rankings (they are ranked 157th, while the Raiders are ranked 858th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Shields continued her habit of posting crazy stat lines, going 8 of 11 on her way to 23 points in addition to seven rebounds and four steals. She continues to improve, besting her previous point total in each of the last four games she's played. The team also got some help courtesy of Destiny Hernandez, who posted 11 points.
Meanwhile, Sotomayor had already won seven in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 30.3 points) and they went ahead and made it eight on Friday. They claimed a resounding 62-31 win over the Raiders. The matchup was all but wrapped up at the end of the third, by which point the WILDCATS had established a 25 point advantage.
Warren has been performing well recently as they've won 12 of their last 16 games, which provided a nice bump to their 23-8 record this season. As for Sotomayor, their victory was their third straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 23-8.
Warren was able to grind out a solid win over Sotomayor in their previous meeting back in December of 2024, winning 61-51. The rematch might be a little tougher for Warren since the squad won't have the home-court advantage this time around. We'll see if the change in venue makes a difference.
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