Basketball Recap: Long Island Lutheran Falls Short Against Ranked Prolific Prep

Long Island Lutheran is ranked highly in their home state and on Thursday they took on another highly ranked team in the form of Prolific Prep. The Crusaders were just a bucket shy of victory and fell 81-80 to the Crew. Despite running the score up even higher than they did in their prior game last Saturday (71), the Crusaders still had to take the loss.

Crusaders

Previous 5 Games

04/03/25 vs Prolific Prep	80-81
03/29/25 vs Allen	71-68
03/28/25 vs Brennan	83-56
03/27/25 vs Highland	56-55
03/08/25 vs Link Academy	71-74

The loss snapped Long Island Lutheran's winning streak at three games and leaves them with a 24-7 record. As for Prolific Prep, the victory was the 17th in a row for them, bringing their record up to 35-5.

Long Island Lutheran does not have any more games scheduled as of now. As for Prolific Prep, they and Dynamic Prep will face off at 11:30 a.m. on Friday without much rest, having both just played. The - will roll in looking for their 12th straight win, something the Crew surely won't give up without a fight.