Call it a rematch.

Call it a revenge game.

Call it whatever you like.

But one thing is for sure, tonight’s tip off at 7 p.m. at the Berwick Middle School between Dunmore and Jim Thorpe in the PIAA Class 4A State Quarterfinals will be a battle between two powerhouse teams.

Dunmore and Jim Thorpe have both lost just one game all season. For the Olympians, their only blemish came in a nonleague regular season meeting against these same Bucks.

The two teams met in late January, with Dunmore coming away with a 49-45 victory - a game in which the outcome wasn’t decided until the final seconds.

The high-scorer in the game was Dunmore’s Moriah Murray. The 1,500 point sharpshooter and D1 commit to Drexel University scored 24 points, with 12 of them coming from beyond the arc.

“In our first game with Dunmore we hung with them, but they made a couple more plays down the stretch,” said Jim Thorpe coach Nadia Gauronsky.

The Olympians are looking forward to the rematch.

“We are playing with a lot of confidence, and we feel like we can beat anyone,” said Gauronsky. “We expect this to be another great game like the first time we played. The only difference, of course, is that this moment is bigger.”

There is one other very important difference from the earlier meeting.

Dunmore lost junior center Ciera Toomey - another heavily recruited Division1 player - to an injury she suffered in the District 2 championship game. That injury has shifted even more of the weight of carrying the Bucks’ offense onto Murray - and she has responded.

In Dunmore’s two prior state playoff games, Murray has been huge. She sank seven three-pointers in a 51-25 win over Shamokin, and then put up 35 points in a 62-53 overtime win over Villa Joseph Marie.

Against Villa Joseph Marie, the Bucks trailed by five points with 45 seconds left in regulation before rallying to force overtime when freshman Sophia Talutto sank two free throws with :19 remaining. Dunmore then took control in the extra period and pulled away for the nine-point win.

“Murray is an incredible athlete,” said Gauronsky. “No one can stop her from scoring, but we’ll try to contain her by shutting down her penetration to the basket, even though she’s still a great shot from the outside.”

Coach Ben O’Brien’s team - once ranked No. 1 in the state in Class 4A - will have to deal with the red-hot Olympians, who have run off 15 straight wins since the loss, and have already added both a Schuylkill League championship, and a District 11 title to their resume.

Jim Thorpe put away Freire Charter, 48-23, in the first round of the state tournament and on Sunday broke open a close halftime score to rout Lake Lehman, 64-37.

In their last four games - two District 11 playoff games and two State playoff games - Jim Thorpe is averaging 54 points per game, while allowing just 28 for an average margin of victory of 27 points.

The Olympians’ electric run has featured a combination of balanced scoring from all five starters,along with a suffocating defense.

Spearheading Thorpe’s postseason run has been two-time Times News Player of the Year Skyler Searfoss.

“Skyler has just been amazing,” said Gauronsky. “We all have seen what she has done in her career, but now, in big moments, she plays even bigger, and puts the weight of the game upon her shoulders.

“When she penetrates, she can score or kick the ball out to Leila Hurley in the corner, or open up our other players.”

Against Lehman, the Olympians patiently passed the ball until Hurley shot an open three, Mackenzie Yuhas hit on a short jump shot, or Leah Snisky or Olivia Smelas converted a layup or put back. Dunmore cannot key on any one Olympian, and will have to pay extra attention to Searfoss, who drives the engine to JT’s well-oiled machine.

For this history making, record-breaking Jim Thorpe team, the goal is and always was that its last dance is in Hershey playing for a state championship.

The Olympians are just two wins away from making that a reality.

The winner of the Jim Thorpe-Dunmore game will play the winner of the Archbishop Wood-Gwynedd Mercy game in the state semifinals.