Basketball Recap: Walt Whitman Drops Season-High Score on Patchogue-Medford

By Team Reports Jan 24, 2025, 8:27am

Basketball Recap: Walt Whitman Wildcats vs. Patchogue-Medford Raiders

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01/23/25 vs Patchogue-Medford76
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12/27/24 vs Huntington68
12/23/24 vs West Islip61
01/16/25 vs William Floyd60

Winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Walt Whitman). They blew past the Patchogue-Medford Raiders 76-56 on Thursday. The Wildcats have made a habit of sweeping their opponents off the court, having now won four matchups by 20 points or more this season.

Walt Whitman is also on a roll lately: they've won six of their last eight games, which provided a nice bump to their 9-4 record this season. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 63.5 points per game. As for Patchogue-Medford, they dropped their record down to 0-2 with the defeat, which was their fourth straight on the road dating back to last season.

A feisty cat fight is on tap when the Walt Whitman Wildcats duke it out with the Longwood Lions at 6:45 p.m. on Monday. As for Patchogue-Medford, they will get a bit of extra time to process the loss as their next game is a ways off. They'll take on Riverhead at 6:30 p.m. on February 6th.

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