Basketball Recap: Bloomfield Falls Short Against Ranked Classical

Bloomfield is ranked highly in their home state and on Saturday they took on another highly ranked team in the form of Classical. The Bloomfield Warhawks took a 74-69 hit to the loss column at the hands of the Classical Purple. Despite running the score up even higher than they did in their prior game on Friday (60), the Warhawks still had to take the loss.

Eliezer Delbrey continued his habit of posting crazy stat lines for Classical, putting up 31 points. The game was Delbrey's eighth in a row with at least 15 points. Another player making a difference was Abdul Evans, who posted 20 points.

Bloomfield has traveled a rocky road recently having lost three of their last four matches, which has put a noticeable dent in their 17-4 record this season. As for Classical, the win (which was their eighth in a row) raised their record to 17-5.

Coming up, Bloomfield will look to defend their home court on Tuesday against Bristol Eastern at 6:00 p.m. Bloomfield has been getting the ball to fall more lately as they've increased their point totals each of their last three games. Classical does not have any more games scheduled as of now.