Basketball Recap: West Laurens Drops Season-High Score on Aquinas

Raiders

Team Score (Highest)

01/29/25 vs Aquinas	82
12/13/24 @ Aquinas	79
12/10/24 vs Howard	77
01/14/25 vs Westside	73
12/14/24 @ Dublin	72

Winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask West Laurens). They breezed by the Aquinas Fightin' Irish to the tune of 82-50 on Wednesday. Given the Raiders' advantage in MaxPreps' Georgia basketball rankings (they are ranked 210th, while the Fightin' Irish are ranked 474th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.

Multiple players turned in solid performances to lead West Laurens to victory, but perhaps none more so than RJ Whipple, who went 5 for 8 on his way to 14 points and four steals. Those four steals gave Whipple a new career-high. Mark Fordham was another key player, dropping a double-double on 15 points and ten boards.

West Laurens was working as a unit and finished the game with 16 assists. That's the most assists they've managed all season.

The victory made it two in a row for West Laurens and bumps their season record up to 10-11. A key ingredient in that success has been their performance when it comes to three-point shooting accuracy: their three-point shooting accuracy was 44% in those games and 29.8% outside of them. As for Aquinas, their loss was their sixth straight on the road, which dropped their record down to 4-16.

Coincidentally, the two teams will both be playing Cross Creek the next time they take the court. Aquinas will host Cross Creek at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, while West Laurens will head out to face them at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday.