Basketball Recap: Wildwood Drops Highest Score of Season Against Salem County Vo-Tech

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Team Score

02/06/25 vs Salem County Vo-Tech	85
01/13/25 @ Salem County Vo-Tech	77
01/15/25 @ Clayton	71
12/22/24 vs Cape May County Tech	67
01/16/25 vs Gloucester Catholic	64

Winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Wildwood). They blew past Salem County Vo-Tech 85-31 on Thursday. The contest was pretty much decided by the half, when the score had already reached 49-14.

Brian Cunniff continued his habit of posting crazy stat lines, going 8 of 18 en route to 25 points along with seven steals and five rebounds. The dominant performance gave him a new career-high in steals. Another player making a difference was Nolan Mawhinney, who went 6 for 13 on his way to 14 points and five boards.

Wildwood was working as a unit and finished the game with 16 assists. The team's really been improving in that area: they've now improved their assist total in three consecutive games.

Wildwood moved to 6-12 with that victory, which also ended their four-game losing streak. As for Salem County Vo-Tech, they are on a 16-game losing streak that has dropped them down to 0-16.

Wildwood and Salem County Vo-Tech could both be facing uphill battles in their next games considering their disadvantage in the MaxPreps New Jersey Rankings. Wildwood will take on Ocean City at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday down 288 places (351 vs. 63). Meanwhile, Salem County Vo-Tech (ranked 429th) will meet Pitman (ranked 126th) at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday.