The Collinwood Railroaders will head out on the road to challenge the Riverside Beavers at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday.
Collinwood is coming in off a wild two-game stretch: after soaring to 59 points two weeks ago, they were much more limited against GlenOak on Saturday. They were dealt a 64-26 loss at the hands of the Golden Eagles. While losing is never fun, the Railroaders can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Ohio basketball rankings (they are ranked 716th, while the Golden Eagles are ranked 199th).
Meanwhile, Riverside was able to grind out a solid victory over Geneva on Monday, taking the game 64-54. The win made it back-to-back victories for the Beavers.
Collinwood's defeat ended a three-game streak of away wins and brought them to 3-6. As for Riverside, the win got them back to even at 3-3.
Collinwood took a serious blow against Riverside in their previous meeting back in January of 2024, falling 63-28. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Riverside's Colin Durkin, who went 7 for 10 on his way to 21 points and four steals. Now that Collinwood knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? There's only one way to find out.
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