Basketball Recap: Piner Now 9-1 over Last Ten Games

St. Vincent de Paul came into Wednesday's match looking for another win against Piner, but Apollo Pereira wouldn't allow it. The Piner Prospectors enjoyed a cozy 59-40 win over the St. Vincent de Paul Mustangs on Wednesday thanks to Pereira, who dropped a double-double with 22 points and 11 rebounds. The dominant performance gave him a new career-high in boards.

Brendan Walker

Rebounds

02/12/25 vs St. Vincent de Paul	10
02/06/25 @ Healdsburg	15
02/04/25 vs St. Vincent de Paul	8
01/30/25 @ Elsie Allen	13
01/28/25 @ Ukiah	11
+ 17 more games

Another player making a difference was Brendan Walker, who dropped a double-double with 14 points and ten rebounds. He has been hot for a while, having posted eight or more boards the last 22 times he's played.

Despite the loss, St. Vincent de Paul still got an impressive performance from Jack Ellis, who almost dropped a double-double with 22 points and nine rebounds.

Piner is on a roll lately: they've won nine of their last ten games, which provided a massive bump to their 18-9 record this season. The wins came thanks in part to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 60.9 points over those games. As for St. Vincent de Paul, their loss ended a three-game streak of away wins and brought them to 17-10.

Coming up, Piner will challenge Ukiah at 7:30 p.m. on Friday. Piner is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 59.1 points per game this season. St. Vincent de Paul does not have any more games scheduled as of now.