Basketball Recap: Mount Dora Christian Academy Drops Season-High Score on Umatilla

Bulldogs

Team Score

01/21/25 vs Umatilla	102
12/02/24 vs Forest Lake Academy	93
01/07/25 @ Umatilla	84
11/21/24 vs Real Life Christian Academy	82
01/18/25 vs Circle Christian	74

Winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Mount Dora Christian Academy). They took their game on Tuesday with ease, bagging a 102-25 victory over the Umatilla Bulldogs. The match was pretty much decided by the half, when the score had already reached 69-14.

Mount Dora Christian Academy's win was a true team effort, with many players turning in solid performances. Perhaps the best among them was Ethan Priest, who went 7 for 8 en route to 18 points and four steals. The dominant performance gave Priest a new career-high in points. Landon Marenco was another key player, going 9 of 11 on his way to 20 points.

Mount Dora Christian Academy was working as a unit and finished the game with 30 assists. That's the most assists they've managed all season.

Mount Dora Christian Academy is on a roll lately: they've won five of their last six contests, which provided a nice bump to their 11-7 record this season. They've dominated over that stretch too, winning by an average of 41.4 points. As for Umatilla, their loss was their fourth straight on the road dating back to last season, which dropped their record down to 4-14.

Mount Dora Christian Academy and Forest Lake Academy will face off at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday without much rest having both just played. Umatilla has already played their next game (against West Port), but no score has been uploaded at the time of writing.