Basketball Recap: Ropes Drops Season-High Score on Morton

Eagles

Team Score

01/21/25 vs Morton	82
12/05/24 vs Kingdom Prep Academy	78
11/26/24 vs Crosbyton	75
12/27/24 vs Anton	71
12/28/24 vs Brownfield	68

Winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Ropes). They took their contest on Tuesday with ease, bagging an 82-6 victory over the Morton Indians. The Eagles have made a habit of sweeping their opponents off the court, having now won 12 matches by 20 points or more this season.

Ropes' win ended a three-game drought at home and bumped them up to 20-10. As for Morton, they are on an 11-game losing streak that has dropped them down to 2-17.

Ropes and Morton could both be facing uphill battles in their next games considering their disadvantage in the MaxPreps Texas Rankings. Ropes will take on Whiteface at 6:15 p.m. on Friday down 309 places (406 vs. 97). Ropes is out to stop a three-game streak of losses at home. Similarly, Morton (ranked 1312th) will meet Smyer (ranked 496th) at 6:15 p.m. on Friday.