Vidor hasn't had much luck against Silsbee recently, but that could start to change on Tuesday. The Vidor Pirates will host the Silsbee Tigers at 6:30 p.m. Each of these teams will be fighting to keep a win streak alive as Vidor comes in on four and Silsbee on 11.
Vidor is headed into the game after thoroughly thrashing Lumberton: they outscored them in every quarter. Vidor walked away with a 63-51 win over Lumberton on Friday. Given the Pirates' advantage in MaxPreps' Texas basketball rankings (they are ranked 298th, while the Raiders are ranked 796th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Meanwhile, you can't lose the game if you win every quarter, and that was precisely Silsbee's strategy against West Orange-Stark on Friday. Given that consistent dominance, it should come as no surprise that Silsbee blew West Orange-Stark out of the water with an 86-52 final score. The Tigers have made a habit of sweeping their opponents off the court, having now won 12 matchups by 21 points or more this season.
Silsbee found their leader in sophomore Payton Jones, who went 12 of 18 to rack up 33 points along with seven assists and seven boards. The contest was Jones' 16th in a row with at least 16 points. The team also got some help courtesy of Troy Rice, who dropped a double-double on 18 points and 13 rebounds.
Silsbee pushed their record up to 19-13 with the victory, which was their seventh straight at home. A key ingredient in that success has been their performance when it comes to three-point shooting accuracy: their three-point shooting accuracy was 34.2% in those games and 29% outside of them. As for Vidor, their win bumped their record up to 23-9.
Vidor was dealt a bruising 84-50 defeat at the hands of Silsbee in their previous matchup back in January. That game was all but decided by halftime, at which point Vidor was down 41-18.
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