Basketball Recap: Temple City Sets Scoring Season-High Against Mountain View

Rams

Team Score

12/27/24 vs Mountain View	79
11/18/24 vs Gabrielino	64
12/16/24 vs El Rancho	57
12/26/24 vs California	56
12/10/24 vs Claremont	56

Winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Temple City). They blew past the Mountain View Vikings 79-31 on Friday. With the Rams ahead 47-10 at the half, the contest was all but over already.

Justin Allen was a one-man wrecking crew for Temple City as he dropped a double-double on 16 points and 17 rebounds. Another player making a difference was Elkan Lai, who made all 5 shots he took to post 15 points.

Temple City has been performing well recently as they've won three of their last four games, which provided a massive bump to their 7-8 record this season. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 60.0 points per game. As for Mountain View, their defeat was their sixth straight on the road, which dropped their record down to 2-14.

Temple City won't have much time to rest: their next matchup is against San Gabriel at 3:30 p.m. on Saturday. Temple City is facing San Gabriel at the right time seeing as San Gabriel is stuck on a three-game losing streak. As for Mountain View, they will get a bit of extra time to process the loss as their next game is a ways off. They'll take on Arroyo at 6:30 p.m. on January 8, 2025.