Basketball Recap: Pine Creek Takes a Loss

Pine Creek lost against Doherty on February 4th, and unfortunately they wound up with the same result on Thursday. The Pine Creek Eagles took a 74-63 hit to the loss column at the hands of the Doherty Spartans. While losing is never fun, the Eagles can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Colorado basketball rankings (they are ranked 94th, while the Spartans are ranked 30th).

Blake Marshall

Points

02/20/25 @ Doherty	25
02/18/25 @ Rampart	28
02/14/25 vs Vista Ridge	23
02/12/25 vs Pueblo West	29
02/10/25 vs Liberty	16
02/08/25 vs Fountain-Fort Carson	16

Loss or not, Pine Creek got some senior leadership from Blake Marshall and Kyler Chatman. Marshall went 8-for-16 en route to 25 points, while Chatman went 6-for-15 on his way to 18 points in addition to six rebounds and five assists. Marshall's evening made it six games in a row in which he has scored at least 16 points.

Elijah Mack was his usual excellent self, going 9-for-13 to rack up 25 points along with eight boards and five assists for Doherty. Mack is also on a roll when it comes to shooting accuracy, as he's posted one of at least 50% in the last five games he's played. Another player making a difference was Maddox Dee-Mortensen, who went 7-for-10 on his way to 18 points.

Pine Creek's defeat dropped their record down to 12-11. As for Doherty, they have been performing incredibly well recently as they've won 12 of their last 13 games. That's provided a nice bump to their 14-8 record this season.

Pine Creek will challenge Loveland at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Pine Creek has been dominant on offense recently, having racked up an incredible 176 points over their last three matchups. As for Doherty, they didn't take long to hit the court again: they've already played their next contest, a 70-66 loss against Legend on the 22nd.