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Booker Sarasota

Tornadoes

Sailors

The Sarasota (FL) varsity basketball team won Thursday's home non-conference game against Booker (Sarasota, FL) by a score of 48-45.

	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Final
Booker	-	-	-	-	45
Sarasota	-	-	-	-	48

Final score provided by B. Drechsler.

Recap
Box Score
Matchup Info

Game Stats

Booker (23-24)

Booker

Shooting

#	Athlete Name	Pts	FGM	FGA	FG%	AFG%
	Team Totals	45	17	37	46	53
1	Jovan Palavra (Sr)	8	3	10	30	30
5	Darius Behn (So)	8	3	8	38	50
10	Jamareon Ruffin (Sr)	10	4	4	100	125
11	Jerry Olaince (Sr)	2	1	1	100	100
13	Micah Brewer (Jr)	2	1	1	100	100
15	J.p Lattimore (So)	8	3	9	33	33
23	Kaiden Wright (Fr)	7	2	4	50	63

Booker

#	Athlete Name	Pts	3PM	3PA	3P%	FTM	FTA	FT%	2FGM	2FGA	2FG%
	Team Totals	45	5	12	42	6	7	86	12	25	48
1	Jovan Palavra (Sr)	8	0	2	0	2	3	67	3	8	38
5	Darius Behn (So)	8	2	5	40				1	3	33
10	Jamareon Ruffin (Sr)	10	2	2	100				2	2	100
11	Jerry Olaince (Sr)	2							1	1	100
13	Micah Brewer (Jr)	2							1	1	100
15	J.p Lattimore (So)	8	0	1	0	2	2	100	3	8	38
23	Kaiden Wright (Fr)	7	1	2	50	2	2	100	1	2	50

Booker

Totals

#	Athlete Name	Pts	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk
	Team Totals	45	33	5	7	3
1	Jovan Palavra (Sr)	8	10	5	3
5	Darius Behn (So)	8	3		1
10	Jamareon Ruffin (Sr)	10	4		2	1
11	Jerry Olaince (Sr)	2
13	Micah Brewer (Jr)	2	1
15	J.p Lattimore (So)	8	7			1
23	Kaiden Wright (Fr)	7	8		1	1

Booker

Misc Totals

#	Athlete Name	Defl
	Team Totals	5
1	Jovan Palavra (Sr)	4
15	J.p Lattimore (So)	1

Sarasota (23-24)

Sarasota has not entered stats for this game.

Game Story

Florida High School Basketball - Booker edged by Sarasota

December 7, 2023: Sarasota, FL 34237

The Booker Tornadoes basketball team (Sarasota, FL), was nudged 48-45 in Thursday's non-league battle with the host Sarasota Sailors (Sarasota, FL)

The Sailors now possess a 5-1 record. They put it on the line next when they host Eustis for a non-league battle on Saturday, December 9. Sarasota will confront a Panthers team coming off a 72-42 non-league loss to Ocoee (Ocoee, FL). The Panthers record now stands at 5-1.

The Tornadoes (1-4) will now prepare for their battle against Avon Park (Avon Park, FL). The Red Devils come into the non-league battle with a 2-2 record. In their last battle, Avon Park was nudged by Lake Region (Eagle Lake, FL), 69-53, in a non-league battle.

Booker @ Sarasota Basketball Game Info

Thu., Dec. 7, 2023 @ 7:30p

The Sarasota (FL) varsity basketball team won Thursday's home non-conference game against Booker (Sarasota, FL) by a score of 48-45.

Rankings & Records

Booker (23-24)

FL	Class
193	23

Overall	District	Home	Away	Neutral	Win %	District %	PF	PA
19-10	4-0	8-3	7-6	4-1	.655	1.000	1,737	1,509

Sarasota (23-24)

FL	Class
38	9

Overall	District	Home	Away	Neutral	Win %	District %	PF	PA
24-3	2-0	10-0	8-1	6-2	.889	1.000	1,748	1,387

Team Scoring Averages

	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	OT1	Final
Booker	19.9	12.1	14.9	13.9	-	59.9
Sarasota	16.4	18.0	16.8	15.2	6.0	64.7

Team Stat Comparison

Booker		Sarasota
59.4	Points Per Game	62.7
28.1	Rebounds Per Game	27.0
8.9	Assists Per Game	12.0
8.2	Steals Per Game	10.0
2.4	Blocks Per Game	2.3

Team Leaders

Booker		Sarasota	National Avg.
#1 Jovan Palavra16.9	Points Per Game	#30 Johnny Lackaff13.0	4.9
#1 Jovan Palavra5.9	Rebounds Per Game	#5 Oliver Boyle6.7	2.6
#1 Jovan Palavra3.1	Assists Per Game	#1 Franklin Liriano3.2	1.0
#1 Jovan Palavra2.2	Steals Per Game	#12 Michael Drayton2.0	0.8
#1 Jovan Palavra0.9	Blocks Per Game	#20 Nate Gruhl1.0	0.3

Common Opponents

School	Common Opp. Rec.		School	Common Opp. Rec.
Booker	5-6		Sarasota	13-2

Date	Away	Home	Result	Date	Away	Home	Result
11/27/23	Booker	North Port	(L) 45-33	12/28/23	Sarasota	North Port	(L) 62-58
1/26/24	North Port	Booker	(W) 64-56	2/10/24	North Port	Sarasota	(W) 63-36
12/5/23	Booker	Manatee	(W) 62-58	12/21/23	Manatee	Sarasota	(W) 71-44
12/13/23	Southeast	Booker	(L) 61-50	1/11/24	Sarasota	Southeast	(W) 79-50
				1/31/24	Southeast	Sarasota	(W) 80-53
12/15/23	Booker	Braden River	(L) 83-60	12/5/23	Braden River	Sarasota	(W) 74-51
				12/19/23	Sarasota	Braden River	(W) 69-57
12/20/23	Venice	Booker	(L) 62-55	1/9/24	Venice	Sarasota	(W) 78-50
1/19/24	Booker	Venice	(W) 61-48	1/26/24	Sarasota	Venice	(W) 67-51
12/27/23	Cardinal Mooney	Booker	(L) 53-41	1/5/24	Sarasota	Cardinal Mooney	(W) 52-47
				2/2/24	Cardinal Mooney	Sarasota	(W) 66-39
1/8/24	Riverview Sarasota	Booker	(L) 56-53	11/28/23	Riverview Sarasota	Sarasota	(W) 70-58
1/17/24	Booker	Riverview Sarasota	(W) 61-57	1/29/24	Sarasota	Riverview Sarasota	(W) 57-43
				2/15/24	Riverview Sarasota	Sarasota	(L) 58-54
1/29/24	Booker	Parrish Community	(W) 49-42	12/30/23	Sarasota	Parrish Community	(W) 75-40

Record Breakdown

Booker (23-24)		Sarasota (23-24)
19-10	Overall	24-3
4-0	League	2-0
9-8	Non-League	15-1
0-1	Head to Head	1-0
5-6	Common Opponent	13-2
8-3	Home	10-0
7-6	Away	8-1
4-1	Neutral	6-2
3-1	Playoff	2-1
19-10	In-State	23-3
0-0	Out-of-State	1-0