The Mentor Cardinals will head out on the road to take on the Green Bulldogs at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday. Mentor has been dominant on offense recently, as they've racked up an incredible 2,130 points over their last 24 matches.
Mentor stacked a ninth blowout win onto their ever-increasing hoard on Saturday. They took their contest at home with ease, bagging a 112-68 win over North. Having run the score up that high, both teams might be doing some extra defensive drills very soon.
It was another big night for Matthew Biddell, who scored 36 points along with eight rebounds and seven assists. He has been hot recently, having posted 15 or more points the last nine times he's played. Another player making a difference was Ian Ioppolo, who shot 5-for-8 from long range and dropped a double-double on 27 points and ten rebounds.
Meanwhile, Green had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 19.5 points), and they went ahead and made it three on Saturday. They came out on top against Roosevelt by a score of 46-37. That's two games straight that Green has won by exactly nine points.
Mentor's win was their 14th straight at home dating back to last season, which pushed their record up to 17-7. Those good results were due in large part to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 93.6 points per game. As for Green, they are on a roll lately: they've won five of their last six contests, which provided a nice bump to their 18-5 record this season.
Mentor lost to Green on the road by a decisive 77-60 margin in their previous matchup back in March of 2019. Can Mentor avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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