Basketball Recap: Unalakleet's Higher State Rank on Full Display on Saturday

Unalakleet won the last time they faced Nome-Beltz and things went their way on Saturday too. The Unalakleet Wolfpack secured a 63-59 W over the Nome-Beltz Nanooks. Given the Wolfpack's advantage in MaxPreps' Alaska basketball rankings (they are ranked fifth, while the Nanooks are ranked 29th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.

Nome-Beltz lost despite a true team effort on offense, the best among them being BrookLynn Crowe, who posted 12 points. The dominant performance gave Crowe a new career-high in points. Another player making a difference was Benny Lie, who put up 11 points.

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Previous 2 Games

01/25/25 - Home	63-59 W
01/24/25 - Home	38-35 W

The victory made it two in a row for Unalakleet and bumps their season record up to 10-1. As for Nome-Beltz, this is the second loss in a row for them and nudges their season record down to 5-5.

Unalakleet has already played their next match (against Susitna Valley), but no score has been uploaded at the time of writing. Nome-Beltz has also has no score uploaded for their next contest, this one against Homer.