Basketball Recap: Arts Academy at Benjamin Rush Skates Past Girard Academic Music Program with Ease

KNIGHTS

Team Score

01/16/25 vs Girard Academic Music Program	63
12/05/24 vs Swenson Arts & Tech	62
01/07/25 @ KIPP DuBois Collegiate Academy	60
01/14/25 vs Jules E. Mastbaum Vo-Tech	52
12/19/24 vs Parkway West	52

Winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Arts Academy at Benjamin Rush). They blew past the Girard Academic Music Program Pioneers 63-30 on Thursday. The KNIGHTS pushed the score to 48-25 by the end of the third, a deficit the Pioneers had little chance of recovering from.

Despite the loss, Girard Academic Music Program still got an impressive performance from Jovanni Romeo, who posted 20 points. That was a full 66.7% of Girard Academic Music Program's points, marking the third time in a row he's had more than a third of the team's points.

The victory got Arts Academy at Benjamin Rush back to even at 5-5. As for Girard Academic Music Program, their defeat dropped their record down to 4-6.

Arts Academy at Benjamin Rush has already played their next contest (against Randolph Vo-Tech), but no score has been uploaded at the time of writing. Girard Academic Music Program will venture away from home to square off against KIPP DuBois Collegiate Academy at 3:15 p.m. on Tuesday. KIPP DuBois Collegiate Academy is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 58.4 points per game this season.