The girls’ basketball team hits the road once more to take on the Memorial Warriors Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. in District 9-5A play with first place on the line as the Redhawks sit in first place at 9-0 and the Warriors in second place at 8-1. 

“The only thing a win would do that would be different then a loss in this case is that you narrow down a little bit what the playoff will be,” head coach Ross Reedy said. “A loss makes it a little wide open.”

The Warriors are not an unfamiliar opponent for the Redhawks as the teams have met three times already. Two of which the Redhawks came out victorious.

“It’s positive and negative,” Reedy said. “It’s positive in a sense that you gain familiarity, you go into some games and you have kids with the personal that Memorial has, you can be overwhelmed if you’ve never seen them before. You know that you can go out and compete and have a chance to win. It’s negative because they’re good.”

With all three previous games close, Reedy expects the same Tuesday night.

“I hope so. That means that we are playing well and that we are in the game,” Reedy said. “It’s been a variety of games over the years. Over the past two years we have split both times, coming down to one possession games. It’s hard to look at it and say we are going to run away with it,  but both teams are looking for opportunities to stretch this out a little bit. We are just going to try to win every possession we can.”

The Redhawks are always looking to stay focused, especially going into a fun, but hostile environment.

“We just think of every game as just a regular game,” senior Jazzy Owens-Barnett said. “We never think one game is bigger than another and we always play for ourselves.”