Basketball Recap: Rilynn Jones and Evelyn Lehman Secure Win for Allen East

Mustangs

Lowest Scoring Games

02/06/25 @ Spencerville	39-34
11/23/24 vs Bluffton	40-28
01/04/25 vs Wapakoneta	41-29

Allen East hadn't done well against Spencerville recently (they were 1-8 in their previous nine matchups), but they didn't let the past get in their way on Thursday. The Allen East Mustangs snuck past the Spencerville Bearcats with a 39-34 win. The 39-point effort marked the Mustangs' lowest-scoring matchup of the season, but in the end it didn't matter.

Leading Allen East to victory were Evelyn Lehman and Rilynn Jones. Lehman posted 17 points, while Jones scored 16 points. That makes it four consecutive games in which Jones has scored at least a third of Allen East's points.

Allen East is on a roll lately: they've won six of their last seven games, which provided a nice bump to their 17-4 record this season. As for Spencerville, they dropped their record down to 11-10 with the loss, which was their third straight at home.

Allen East didn't take long to hit the court again: they've already played their next contest, a 64-39 victory against Botkins on the 8th. As for Spencerville, they also wasted no time getting back out on the court and have already played their next match, a 56-30 win against Fort Jennings on the 8th.