Basketball Recap: Forest Park Extends Home Winning Streak to 18

MCKENZIE FITZGERALD

Steals

01/28/25 vs Patterson	10
01/25/25 vs Eastern	6
01/23/25 vs Edmondson-Westside	10
01/21/25 @ Lake Clifton	5
01/16/25 vs Western	3

Forest Park extended their home winning streak to 18 games dating back to last season thanks to a huge performance from MCKENZIE FITZGERALD. The Forest Park Foresters took their contest on Tuesday with ease, bagging a 67-26 victory over the Patterson Clippers thanks in part to FITZGERALD, who dropped a triple-double on 11 points, ten assists, and ten steals. FITZGERALD is crushing it when it comes to steals: she's grabbed at least two every time she's taken the court this season.

The team also got some help courtesy of INDIA WATKINS, who went 6 for 9 en route to 12 points. The dominant performance also gave her a new career-high in boards (four).

Forest Park has been performing well recently as they've won five of their last six matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 13-4 record this season. As for Patterson, their loss dropped their record down to 5-7.

The future could be bright for both Forest Park and Patterson: their next opponents haven't had the best luck recently. Forest Park will look to extend Southwestern's seven-game losing streak when the meet at 3:45 p.m. on Thursday. Meanwhile, Patterson will try to hand Douglass their sixth-straight defeat when the two meet at 3:45 p.m. on Thursday.