Basketball Recap: Payne Tech Picks Up Seventh Consecutive Victory

Lions

Previous Games

01/25/25 vs Madison	64-48
01/21/25 @ Newark Collegiate Academy	68-55
01/20/25 @ Immaculate Conception	59-55
01/18/25 vs Pioneer Academy	91-55
01/16/25 vs Science Park	83-56
+ 2 more games

Payne Tech waltzed into their matchup on Saturday with six straight wins... but they left with seven. They enjoyed a cozy 64-48 victory over the Madison Dodgers. The Lions pushed the score to 45-24 by the end of the third, a deficit the Dodgers cut but never quite recovered from.

Payne Tech has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won eight of their last nine contests, which provided a massive bump to their 11-5 record this season. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 67.1 points per game. As for Madison, their defeat dropped their record down to 11-4.

A feisty cat fight is on tap when the Payne Tech Lions take on the East Orange Campus Jaguars at 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday. East Orange Campus has been getting the ball to fall more lately as they've increased their point totals each of their last three games. Madison has already played their next game (against Kinnelon), but no score has been uploaded at the time of writing.