A feisty cat fight will be fought when the Christopher Bearcats take on the Richland County Tigers at 8:30 p.m. on Friday... Christopher will be strutting in after a win while Richland County will be coming in after a loss.
Having struggled with three defeats in a row, Christopher turned things around against Sesser-Valier on Friday. They blew past the Red Devils 55-29. The Bearcats pushed the score to 47-27 by the end of the third, a deficit the Red Devils had little chance of recovering from.
Meanwhile, Richland County managed to keep up with St. Anthony until halftime on Monday, but things quickly went downhill from there. Richland County might have been a little too into the holiday spirit, gifting St. Anthony an easy 68-48 victory. While losing is never fun, the Tigers can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Illinois basketball rankings (they are ranked 242nd, while the Bulldogs are ranked 76th).
The win got Christopher back to even at 4-4. As for Richland County, with the loss, they broke their three-game winning streak and moved their record to 6-5.
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