The Center Hill Mustangs will challenge the Southwind Jaguars at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday.
The home team had won the previous three meetings between Center Hill and Grenada, and Grenada kept the tradition alive. The Mustangs fell just short of the Chargers by a score of 50-47 on Tuesday. That's two games in a row now that the Mustangs have lost by exactly three points.
Meanwhile, Southwind entered their tilt with Kirby on Tuesday with four consecutive wins but they'll enter their next game with five. They took their game with ease, bagging a 69-31 victory over the Cougars. The Jaguars pushed the score to 49-26 by the end of the third, a deficit the Cougars had little chance of recovering from.
Southwind's win came from a few key players Center Hill will need to keep an eye on. One of the most notable was Monterrio Cox, who went 8-for-11 on his way to 16 points along with seven assists and five steals. Ronald Towns was another key player, shooting 67% from the field en route to 14 points and five boards.
Southwind was working as a unit and finished the game with 14 assists. That's the most assists they've posted since back in February.
Center Hill dropped their record down to 2-9 with the loss, which was their fourth straight on the road. Even worse, they were so close so many times: the defeats came by an average of only 4.5 points. As for Southwind, their win bumped their record up to 7-3.
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