Mt. Pleasant and James Lick are an even 5-5 against one another since January of 2017, but not for long. The Mt. Pleasant Cardinals will look to defend their home court on Thursday against the James Lick Comets at 7:00 p.m. The timing is sure in Mt. Pleasant's favor as the team sits on four straight wins at home while James Lick has been banged up by 30 consecutive losses on the road dating back to last season.
Mt. Pleasant can now show off nine landslide victories after their most recent match on Tuesday. They claimed a resounding 62-31 victory over San Jose on the road. Mt. Pleasant pushed the score to 56-28 by the end of the third, a deficit San Jose had little chance of recovering from.
Snowe DeLeon continued her habit of posting crazy stat lines, scoring 33 points. That makes it nine consecutive games in which she has scored at least a third of Mt. Pleasant's points. Another player making a difference was Jayden Perez, who scored nine points.
Meanwhile, James Lick was just a bucket shy of victory on Tuesday and fell 34-33 to Overfelt.
Mt. Pleasant's victory bumped their record up to 10-11. As for James Lick, their defeat dropped their record down to 3-19.
Everything came up roses for Mt. Pleasant against James Lick when the teams last played back in January as the team secured a 67-14 win. With Mt. Pleasant ahead 45-13 at the half, the game was all but over already.
