Basketball Recap: Curwensville Comes Up Short

Curwensville lost against Clearfield back in December of 2024, and unfortunately they wound up with the same result on Friday. The Curwensville Golden Tide had to suffer through an 86-56 loss at the hands of the Clearfield Bison. While losing is never fun, the Golden Tide can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Pennsylvania basketball rankings (they are ranked 676th, while the Bison are ranked 222nd).

When it comes to explaining why Curwensville lost, don't look at Davis Fleming. Despite the final result, he went 6-for-11 from beyond the arc to rack up 34 points. That was a full 60.7% of Curwensville's points, marking the fifth time in a row Fleming has posted more than a third of the team's points. Another player making a difference was Chandler English, who had seven points and five boards.

Braison Patrick continued his habit of posting crazy stat lines for Clearfield, dropping a double-double with 42 points and ten rebounds. The dominant performance gave Patrick a new career-high in boards. Ev Maines was another key player, going 6-for-15 on his way to 15 points.

Curwensville's defeat was their fourth straight at home, which dropped their record down to 6-15. As for Clearfield, the win made it two in a row for them and bumps their season record up to 13-9.

Curwensville does not have any more games scheduled as of now. Clearfield has already played their next game (against Elk County Catholic), but no score has been uploaded at the time of writing.