The Aledo Bearcats and the Lake Dallas Falcons will round out the year against one another at at 11:30 a.m. on Friday. Aledo is coming into the contest hot, having won their last ten games.
If Lake Dallas heads into halftime all tied up, they better play a good second half: that's when Aledo took over last week. Aledo escaped with a win on Friday against Chisholm Trail by the margin of a single free throw, 54-53. Given the Bearcats' advantage in MaxPreps' Texas basketball rankings (they are ranked 53rd, while the Rangers are ranked 200th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Lake Dallas). They blew past Gainesville 81-47 on Friday. Perhaps unsurprisingly given the team's high-flying offense, the game also marked the team's biggest victory of the season.
Lake Dallas' record is now 6-10. As for Aledo, their win was their fifth straight at home, which pushed their record up to 16-1.
Aledo took their victory against Lake Dallas when the teams last played back in December of 2020 by a conclusive 54-34. Will Aledo repeat their success, or does Lake Dallas have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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