Cedar Ridge Coach Clay Jones sat back looking at the scorebook, sitting on a table while sipping a Diet Coke with chuckling with his assistants. “We were due,” said Jones after Cedar Ridge had defeated its crosstown rival Orange for the first time since February 2015. But he wasn’t talking about the rivalry against their…
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Rivalry games aren’t supposed to make sense. On Friday night, the Orange girls basketball team rolled into Cedar Ridge winless for 2018. They had lost six consecutive conference games, including a 46-39 decision to the Red Wolves on December 19th at Orange. The Panthers were 72 hours removed from a 49-27 loss to Hillside. On…
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It took nearly three years, but Mekai Collins finally got his win over Orange on Friday night. Collins scored 20 points as the Red Wolves pulled away to beat their crosstown rivals 55-38. Collins scored 15 points in the second half, continuing a strong week. On Wednesday, Collins scored 16 points in a 73-72 loss…
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February 13, 2015. That was the last time Cedar Ridge had beaten Orange in boys basketball. But that dry spell came to an end in convincing fashion on Friday night as the Red Wolves defeated the Panthers 55-38 at Red Wolves Gymnasium. Senior forward John Vaughn scored eleven points, including seven in the third quarter…
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Rivalry games sometime produce surprising results. On Friday night, the Orange girls basketball team came into its rivalry game with Cedar Ridge on a five-game losing streak. They had yet to win in 2018, but junior forward Icez Barnett changed that by scoring 13 points, including seven in the fourth quarter as the Lady Panthers…
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