The Naches Valley Rangers are taking a road trip to challenge the Royal Knights at 5:15 p.m. on Saturday. Naches Valley has a tough task ahead: they'll enter the contest with four straight defeats, while Royal will come in with five straight victories.
Naches Valley is headed into the match out to prove that what happened against Zillah on Friday (when they were outscored in every quarter) was just a minor bump in the road. Naches Valley was dealt a 98-47 loss at the hands of Zillah. While losing is never fun, the Rangers can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Washington basketball rankings (they are ranked 291st, while the Leopards are ranked 27th).
Meanwhile, Royal was able to grind out a solid win over Cashmere on Friday, taking the game 74-64.
Royal pushed their record up to 18-1 with the victory, which was their ninth straight at home. They've dominated over that stretch too, winning by an average of 30.8 points. As for Naches Valley, their defeat dropped their record down to 3-13.
Naches Valley might still be hurting after the 80-56 loss they got from Royal in their previous matchup back in January. Can Naches Valley avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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