Basketball Recap: East Butler Takes a Loss

East Butler lost against Twin River on January 4th and unfortunately they wound up with the same result on Tuesday. The East Butler Tigers received a blow as they fell 55-41 to the Twin River Titans. The Tigers have now taken an 'L' in back-to-back games.

Despite the loss, East Butler still got an impressive performance from Lillie Kriz, who dropped a double-double on 18 points and ten boards. That was a full 43.9% of East Butler's points, marking the tenth time in a row she's posted more than a third of the team's points. The team also got some help courtesy of Madalynn Marsh, who scored eight points and three steals.

East Butler's loss dropped their record down to 8-10. As for Twin River, they are on a roll lately: they've won four of their last five matches, which provided a nice bump to their 11-7 record this season.

East Butler has already played their next game (against McCool Junction), but no score has been uploaded at the time of writing. Twin River will square off against Hampton at 6:00 p.m. on February 6th.