The Corner Yellow Jackets and the Good Hope Raiders will round out the year against one another at 1:30 p.m. on Monday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Corner has three straight wins, Good Hope has three straight losses), but none of that matters once you're on the court.
Corner proved they can win big on Friday (they won by 25) and on Saturday they proved they can win the close ones too. They pulled ahead with a 66-65 photo finish over Decatur Heritage Christian Academy.
Meanwhile, it's never fun to lose, and it's even less fun to lose 82-41, which was the final score in Good Hope's tilt against Springville on Friday. While losing is never fun, the Raiders can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Alabama basketball rankings (they are ranked 289th, while the Tigers are ranked 14th).
Good Hope's defeat dropped their record down to 6-9. As for Corner, their victory bumped their record up to 15-2.
Corner skirted past Good Hope 66-63 when the teams last played back in November. Will the Yellow Jackets repeat their success, or do the Raiders have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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