The Walnut Ridge Scots waltzed into their matchup on Friday with four straight wins but they left with five. They came out on top against Northland by a score of 60-52. For Walnut Ridge, this counts as revenge for the 73-61 defeat Northland walked away with the last time they faced one another back in February of 2015.
Walnut Ridge found their leader in underclassman Marquis Lucas, who scored 18 points along with five rebounds. Another player making a difference was Lj Foster, who scored 12 points.
Walnut Ridge is on a roll lately: they've won six of their last seven games, which provided a nice bump to their 16-7 record this season. As for Northland, their loss dropped their record down to 16-4.
Walnut Ridge is on the road again on Wednesday and plays Grove City at 7:00 p.m. on March 6th. Hopefully Walnut Ridge focused on turnovers this week since the team gave up seven on Friday. Northland does not have any more games scheduled as of now.
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