Basketball Recap: Temple Snags Fifth Victory in Last Six Games

It was a proper cat-fight when Temple challenged Newnan on Saturday. The Temple Tigers snuck past the Newnan Cougars with a 41-37 win. The 41-point effort marked the Tigers' lowest-scoring matchup of the season, but in the end it didn't matter.

Temple has been performing well recently as they've won five of their last six games, which provided a nice bump to their 8-3 record this season. As for Newnan, with the defeat, they broke their three-game winning streak and moved their record to 8-2.

Temple will take on McIntosh in a tournament on Monday. Newnan and Russell County will round out the year against one another at at 5:30 p.m. on Monday.