Golden opportunity awaits Westlake on Friday
Opportunities like this don’t come around very often, not for the Westlake boys’ basketball team. Friday night’s Marmonte League game offers this group a chance to do something few teams have this season: Defeat Simi Valley, a program that’s lost one game thus far and is ranked No. 7 by The Times.
Confidence should not be a problem for the Warriors. They did, after all, only lose by two-points in the first meeting in early January. Playing on the road, in a hostile environment, certainly doesn’t help the cause for the first-place Pioneers, who could be ripe for an upset.
It’s not as if Westlake played a soft schedule either. It has quality victories over Chaminade and Oxnard to go along with a couple of hard-fought losses to Harvard-Westlake and Santa Clara. But ultimately, those experiences could end up being the difference between making a statement with a victory, or not.
--Sean Ceglinsky
