Basketball Recap: Centennial's Run of Four Straight Victories Now Over

If Centennial was riding high fresh off their 68-32 takedown of Academy for College and Career Exploration last Saturday, their most recent game may have dampened their spirits a bit. The Centennial Knights fell to the Howard Wildcats 79-73. Despite running the score up even higher than they did in their prior game last Saturday (68), the Knights still had to take the loss.

Multiple players turned in solid performances to lead Howard to victory, but perhaps none more so than Bryson Lane, who went 7 for 14 on his way to 24 points in addition to six rebounds and three steals. The dominant performance gave Lane a new career-high in points. The team also got some help courtesy of Nick Baysah, who went 7 of 13 on his way to 15 points and three steals.

Knights

Previous 5 Games

12/30/24 vs Howard	73-79
12/28/24 vs Academy for College and Career Exploration	68-32
12/21/24 @ Lassiter	54-47
12/17/24 vs Jasper County	82-61
12/14/24 @ Alpharetta	80-40

With the loss, Centennial broke their four-game winning streak and moved their record to 9-5. As for Howard, the win was the fourth in a row for them, bringing their record for this year to 5-2.

Centennial will head out to square off against Westminster at 7:30 p.m. on January 7th. As for Howard, they will welcome Middletown at 4:45 p.m. on January 7th.