Basketball Recap: ThunderRidge Comes Up Short

It's hard to turn regular season success into postseason wins, a fact ThunderRidge can now relate to. They came up short against the Broomfield Eagles on Saturday, falling 61-36. While losing is never fun, the Grizzlies can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Colorado basketball rankings (they are ranked 56th, while the Eagles are ranked sixth).

Broomfield got their win on the backs of several key players, but it was Reece Gilpatrick out in front who shot 46% from the field to rack up 16 points in addition to seven assists and four steals. Those seven assists gave Gilpatrick a new career-high. The team also got some help courtesy of Olivia Kim, who went 7-for-9 on her way to 18 points.

ThunderRidge now has a losing record of 12-13. As for Broomfield, the victory (which was their 14th in a row) raised their record to 23-1.

ThunderRidge does not have any more games scheduled as of now. As for Broomfield, it'll be a Battle of the Birds when the Eagles challenge the Ravens at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday. Broomfield is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 63.3 points per game this season.