Basketball Recap: High Island Takes a Loss

If High Island was feeling good fresh off their 60-40 takedown of Leggett last Thursday, their most recent game may have dampened their spirits a bit. The High Island Cardinals were beaten by the Brookeland Wildcats 78-27 on Friday. The loss continues a trend for the Cardinals in their matchups with the Wildcats: they've now lost seven in a row.

Despite the loss, High Island still got an impressive performance from Cam'Ron Medina, who posted 19 points and seven rebounds. That was a full 70.4% of High Island's points, marking the eighth time in a row he's put up more than a third of the team's points.

Brookeland's success was the result of a balanced attack that saw several players step up, but Cade Morgan led the charge by almost dropping a double-double on 24 points and nine boards. Morgan has been hot recently, having posted nine or more rebounds the last three times he's played. The team also got some help courtesy of Sammy Lundquist, who went 8 of 16 en route to 18 points in addition to seven boards and four steals.

High Island's defeat dropped their record down to 4-19. As for Brookeland, the victory (which was their seventh in a row) raised their record to 20-7.

High Island will head out on the road to face off against Burkeville at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday. High Island is facing Burkeville at the right time seeing as Burkeville is stuck on a three-game losing streak. Brookeland has already played their next match (against Chester), but no score has been uploaded at the time of writing.