Basketball Recap: Blair-Taylor Now 4-1 over Last Five Games

After having lost a blowout in their previous game against Independence/Gilmanton, Blair-Taylor was happy to have turned things around on Saturday. They came out on top against the De Soto Pirates by a score of 51-44. While the Wildcats didn't have the best season last year (they finished 11-16), it's starting to look like those struggles are a thing of the past.

De Soto lost despite a true team effort on offense, the best among them being Kylee Venner, who dropped a double-double on 11 points and 12 rebounds. Venner has been hot recently, having posted eight or more boards the last four times she's played. The team also got some help courtesy of Sylvia Krueger, who almost dropped a double-double on nine points and nine rebounds.

Blair-Taylor is on a roll lately: they've won four of their last five matches, which provided a nice bump to their 7-4 record this season. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 56.0 points per game. As for De Soto, they moved to 7-4 with that defeat, which also ended their four-game winning streak.

Blair-Taylor didn't take long to hit the court again: they've already played their next game, a 50-34 win against Osseo-Fairchild on the 14th. De Soto has also already played their next contest, a 60-42 victory against Brookwood on the 13th.