Preview: Doral Academy Firebirds vs. Colonial Grenadiers
The Doral Academy Firebirds's road trip will continue as they head out to face the Colonial Grenadiers at 9:00 a.m. on March 8th. Both squads will be entering this one on the heels of a big victory.
With a playoff game on the line, Doral Academy rose to the challenge two weeks ago. Everything went their way against the Bobcats as they made off with a 70-50 victory. Winning is a bit easier when you work as a team to rack up 11 more assists than your opponent, as Doral Academy did.
Doral Academy's success was the result of a balanced attack that saw several players step up, but Victoria Valle led the charge by scoring 22 points along with six assists and six rebounds. Another player making a difference was Ashley Martinez, who scored 15 points.
Meanwhile, you can't lose the game if you win every quarter, and that was precisely Colonial's strategy against Lake Mary two weeks ago. Given that consistent dominance, it should come as no surprise that Colonial blew Lake Mary out of the water with a 60-23 final score. Given Colonial's advantage in MaxPreps' Florida basketball rankings (they are ranked fourth, while Lake Mary is ranked 54th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Colonial can attribute much of their success to Carmen Richardson, who scored 15 points along with six assists and five rebounds, and Jasmynne Gibson, who dropped a double-double on 15 points and 11 rebounds. Richardson is on a roll when it comes to steals, as she's now grabbed two or more in the last five games she's played. The team also got some help courtesy of Destinie Gordon, who scored six points along with ten rebounds and three steals.
Doral Academy has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won nine of their last ten games, which provided a nice bump to their 23-7 record this season. As for Colonial, the victory (which was their fifth in a row) raised their record to 26-3.
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