Basketball Recap: East Davidson Drops Season-High Score on South Davidson

Golden Eagles

Team Score

01/07/25 vs South Davidson	78
12/10/24 @ Lexington	64
12/18/24 @ Providence Grove	62
11/19/24 @ North Davidson	60
11/26/24 @ Wheatmore	56

Winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask East Davidson). Everything went their way against the South Davidson Wildcats on Tuesday as the East Davidson Golden Eagles made off with a 78-56 win. With that victory, the Golden Eagles brought their scoring average up to 50.5 points per game.

Multiple players turned in solid performances to lead East Davidson to victory, but perhaps none more so than Tegin Hedrick, who posted 27 points. That makes it three consecutive games in which Hedrick has scored at least a third of East Davidson's points. The team also got some help courtesy of Landin Newton, who put up 22 points.

East Davidson's win was their first in the conference, bumping their conference record up to 1-3 and their overall record up to 3-12. As for South Davidson, they are on a 17-game losing streak (dating back to last season) that has dropped them down to 0-14.

Both squads are looking forward to the support of their home crowds in their upcoming games. East Davidson will take on Thomasville at 6:30 p.m. on Friday. As for South Davidson, they will look to defend their home court on Friday against West Davidson at 7:30 p.m. South Davidson is facing West Davidson at the right time seeing as West Davidson is stuck on a nine-game losing streak.