After both having extra time off, the Santa Anna Mountaineers and the Rising Star Wildcats will shake off the cobwebs and square off against one another at 6:15 p.m. on Tuesday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Santa Anna has five straight wins, Rising Star has ten straight losses), but none of that matters once you're on the court.
Last Friday, Santa Anna earned a 55-46 victory over Blanket. Given the Mountaineers' advantage in MaxPreps' Texas basketball rankings (they are ranked 708th, while the Tigers are ranked 1427th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Meanwhile, it was a proper cat-fight when Rising Star faced off against May last Friday. Rising Star took a blow against May, falling 86-6.
Santa Anna is on a roll lately: they've won six of their last seven matches, which provided a nice bump to their 11-3 record this season. As for Rising Star, their defeat dropped their record down to 0-7.
Santa Anna came up short against Rising Star in their previous meeting back in January of 2023, falling 50-43. Can Santa Anna avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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