Basketball Recap: North County Beats Arundel for Their Fourth Straight Victory

By Team Reports Feb 6, 2025, 7:38am

Basketball Recap: North County Knights vs. Arundel Wildcats

Knights

Previous 4 Games

02/04/25 @ Arundel68-60
01/31/25 vs Annapolis59-52
01/28/25 vs Northeast75-64
01/22/25 vs South River81-73

North County came tearing into Tuesday's game with three straight wins (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 8.7 points) and they left with even more momentum. They walked away with a 68-60 win over the Arundel Wildcats. For the Knights, this counts as revenge for the 72-50 victory the Wildcats walked away with the last time they faced one another back in February of 2024.

Arundel lost despite a true team effort on offense, the best among them being Samson Anjorin, who posted 17 points in addition to seven boards and four steals. The dominant performance also gave Anjorin a new career-high in blocks (three). Another player making a difference was Phoenix Eggleston, who had 12 points along with seven rebounds and five blocks.

North County is on a roll lately: they've won nine of their last ten matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 13-3 record this season. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 68.0 points per game. As for Arundel, this is the second loss in a row for them and nudges their season record down to 10-8.

North County has already played their next contest (against Howard), but no score has been uploaded at the time of writing. Arundel has also has no score uploaded for their next game, this one against Glen Burnie.

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