Basketball Recap: Taft's Win Ends 11-Game Losing Streak at Home

By Team Reports Nov 22, 2024, 12:27pm

Basketball Recap: Taft Raiders vs. Southside Cardinals

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Winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Taft). They took their contest on Thursday with ease, bagging a 73-45 victory over the Southside Cardinals. The game was all but wrapped up at the end of the third, by which point the Raiders had established a 23 point advantage.

Isaiah Williams was his usual excellent self, going 8 for 14 en route to 21 points plus six rebounds and two steals. Kameron Logan was another key player, going 5 for 11 en route to 15 points plus six rebounds.

Taft was working as a unit and finished the game with 18 assists. That's the most assists they've posted since back in January.

Taft's win ended an 11-game drought at home dating back to last season and bumped them up to 2-4. As for Southside, they are on a four-game losing streak that has dropped them down to 1-4.

Taft will take on Marshall at 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday. Taft has been getting the ball to fall more lately as they've increased their point totals each of their last three games. Southside has already played their next match, a 68-39 defeat against Seguin on the 21st.

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