{"id":159002,"date":"2026-02-01T09:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T09:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/159002\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T09:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T09:32:08","slug":"shafter-generals-vs-bakersfield-drillers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/159002\/","title":{"rendered":"Shafter Generals vs. Bakersfield Drillers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:1\">The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/ca\/shafter\/shafter-generals\/basketball\/girls\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Shafter Generals<\/a> will square off against the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/ca\/bakersfield\/bakersfield-drillers\/basketball\/girls\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bakersfield Drillers<\/a> at 6:15  p.m.  on Tuesday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Shafter has 12 straight  victories, Bakersfield has three straight  losses), but none of that matters once you&#8217;re on the court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:2\">On Friday, Shafter took their  contest  with ease, bagging  a  64-8 win over Delano. The Generals have made a habit of sweeping their opponents off the court, having now won 15  games by 26  points or more this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:3\"> Meanwhile, Bakersfield lost  80-60 to Bakersfield Christian on Friday. While losing is never fun, the Drillers can&#8217;t take it too hard given the team&#8217;s big disadvantage  in MaxPreps&#8217; California basketball rankings (they are ranked 326th, while the Eagles are ranked 53rd).<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:4\"> Shafter&#8217;s victory bumped their record up to 21-4. As for Bakersfield, their defeat dropped their record down to 10-9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:5\"> Shafter lost to Bakersfield at home by a decisive  57-39 margin  in their previous matchup  back in February of 2018. Thankfully for the Generals, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/ca\/bakersfield\/bakersfield-drillers\/athletes\/taylor-caldwell\/?careerid=pmfjg38kal8g0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Taylor Caldwell<\/a> (who  went 6-for-10  en route to 16  points in addition to eight  steals and seven  assists) won&#8217;t be suiting up this time. Will that be enough to change the final result? Check MaxPreps.com after the match to find out.<\/p>\n<p>Article generated by <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/infosentience.com\/\">infoSentience<\/a> based on data entered on MaxPreps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Shafter Generals will square off against the Bakersfield Drillers at 6:15 p.m. on Tuesday. The teams are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-159002","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}