The Marist Spartans and the Pleasant Hill Billies will face off at 12:00 p.m. on Saturday without much rest, having both just played. Expect the scorekeeper to be kept busy: if their previous games are any indication, these teams will really light up the scoreboard.
If Marist beats Pleasant Hill with 57 points on Saturday, it's going to be the team's new lucky number: they've won their past two contests with that exact score. The Spartans walked away with a 57-48 win over Creswell on Friday. The matchup marked the Spartans' most dominant victory of the season so far.
Meanwhile, Pleasant Hill had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 7 points) and they went ahead and made it three on Friday. They came out on top against the Lions by a score of 60-50. Given the Billies' advantage in MaxPreps' Oregon basketball rankings (they are ranked 22nd, while the Lions are ranked 145th) , the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Pleasant Hill's win bumped their record up to 7-2. As for Marist, they now have a winning record of 3-2.
Marist didn't have too much breathing room in their game against Pleasant Hill when the teams last played back in December of 2024, but they still walked away with a 51-46 victory. Will the Spartans repeat their success, or do the Billies have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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