Basketball Recap: Saluda Piles Up the Points Against Ninety Six

Tigers

Previous 5 Games

01/25/25 vs Ninety Six	65-35
01/24/25 @ Strom Thurmond	29-22
01/17/25 vs Pelion	57-29
01/14/25 @ American Leadership Academy	44-25
01/08/25 @ McCormick	66-25

Saluda had already won four in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 23.8 points) and they went ahead and made it five on Saturday. They really took it to the Ninety Six Wildcats for the full four quarters, racking up a 65-35 victory. The Tigers pushed the score to 56-25 by the end of the third, a deficit the Wildcats cut but never quite recovered from.

Despite the loss, Ninety Six still got an impressive performance from Janiyah Squire, who dropped a double-double on 20 points and 16 rebounds. That was a full 57.1% of Ninety Six's points, marking the 11th time in a row she's posted more than a third of the team's points. The team also got some help courtesy of Bella Stewart, who scored six points.

Saluda is on a roll lately: they've won eight of their last nine games, which provided a nice bump to their 11-3 record this season. The wins came thanks to their defensive effort, having only surrendered 29.6 points per game. As for Ninety Six, their defeat was their first in the region, dropping their region record down to 3-1 and their overall record down to 8-5.

Saluda wasted no time getting back out on the court and has already played their next match, a 68-34 win against Batesburg-Leesville on the 28th. Ninety Six has also already played their next contest (against Strom Thurmond), but no score has been uploaded at the time of writing.