Basketball Recap: North Andover Comes Up Short

It's hard to turn regular season success into postseason wins, a fact North Andover can now relate to. They took a 62-54 hit to the loss column at the hands of the Franklin Panthers on Monday. While losing is never fun, the Scarlet Knights can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Massachusetts basketball rankings (they are ranked 34th, while the Panthers are ranked first).

North Andover's loss was their fifth straight on the road, which dropped their record down to 13-9. As for Franklin, the win (which was their third in a row) raised their record to 24-1.

As of now, neither North Andover nor Franklin have any future games scheduled.