Mooresville is 0-10 against Lake Norman since February of 2020 but things could change on Wednesday. The Mooresville Blue Devils are taking a road trip to challenge the Lake Norman Wildcats at 6:00 p.m. After the two teams made easy work of their previous opponents, one won't be so lucky on Wednesday.
Mooresville is headed in fresh off scoring the most points they have all season. They breezed by A.L. Brown to the tune of 65-13 on Friday. The Blue Devils pushed the score to 52-11 by the end of the third, a deficit the Wonders had no chance of recovering from.
Mooresville relied on the efforts of Lilly Rumrill, who posted 20 points, and Cadence Lane, who had 17 points. Lane continues to improve, besting her previous point total in each of the last three games she's played. Another player making a difference was Riley Parker, who earned nine points.
Meanwhile, Lake Norman had already won five in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 39.8 points) and they went ahead and made it six on Friday. They took their game with ease, bagging an 82-16 win over the Vikings. Given the Wildcats' advantage in MaxPreps' North Carolina basketball rankings (they are ranked seventh, while the Vikings are ranked 386th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Mooresville is also on a roll lately: they've won four of their last five matchups, which provided a massive bump to their 6-9 record this season. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 55.6 points per game. As for Lake Norman, they pushed their record up to 14-1 with the victory, which was their 13th straight on the road dating back to last season.
Mooresville was taken down by Lake Norman 76-48 when the teams last played back in February of 2024. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Lake Norman's Samantha Shehan, who almost dropped a double-double on 24 points and nine rebounds. Now that Mooresville knows the damage she can cause, will they be able to stop her this time? Check MaxPreps.com after the match to find out.
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