Recap: Big Sandy Wildcats vs. Shepherd Pirates
The Big Sandy Wildcats won the last time they faced the Shepherd Pirates, and things went their way on Thursday too. Big Sandy skirted past Shepherd 52-50. Given Big Sandy's advantage in MaxPreps' Texas basketball rankings (they are ranked 280th, while Shepherd is ranked 1237th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Shepherd's lost despite a true team effort on the offense, the best among them being Tristen Cullum, who scored 15 points. Cullum scored a full 30% of Shepherd's points, the 11th time in a row he's earned more than a third of the team's points. Another player making a difference was Brayden White, who scored 13 points along with 5 rebounds.
Big Sandy is on a roll lately: they've won four of their last five matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 6-2 record this season. As for Shepherd, they are on a five-game losing streak that has dropped them down to 4-7.
Big Sandy's road trip will continue as they head out to face Splendora at 11:00 a.m. on December 7th. Hopefully Splendora focused on turnovers this week since the team gave up 11 last Saturday. As for Shepherd, they will take on Santa Fe at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday.
