Basketball Recap: Leyton Sets Scoring Season-High Against Banner County

Warriors

Team Score

01/28/25 @ Banner County	69
12/19/24 vs Bayard	66
01/25/25 vs Creek Valley	56
12/12/24 @ Peetz	56
01/17/25 vs Potter-Dix	55

Winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Leyton). They took their matchup on Tuesday with ease, bagging a 69-26 victory over the Banner County Wildcats. The game was pretty much decided by the half, when the score had already reached 41-11.

Austin Beutler went supernova for Leyton, going 11 for 17 en route to 22 points in addition to six boards and five steals. The dominant performance gave Beutler a new career-high in steals. Another player making a difference was Jeremiah Hajek, who almost dropped a double-double on 14 points and nine steals.

Leyton was working as a unit and finished the game with 18 assists. That's the most assists they've managed all season.

Leyton has been performing well recently as they've won four of their last five contests, which provided a massive bump to their 6-9 record this season. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 54.0 points per game. As for Banner County, they are on a 15-game losing streak (dating back to last season) that has dropped them down to 0-14.

Leyton has already played their next match (against Minatare), but no score has been uploaded at the time of writing. Banner County didn't take long to hit the court again: they've already played their next game, a 74-21 defeat against Cody-Kilgore on the 31st.