Basketball Recap: Cordova Skates Past Hooper Bay with Ease

Winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Cordova). They blew past the Hooper Bay Warriors, posting an 84-40 win. With that victory, the Wolverines brought their scoring average up to 51.6 points per game.

Multiple players turned in solid performances to lead Cordova to victory, but perhaps none more so than Chiko Jacob, who dropped a double-double on 24 points and 11 rebounds. Jacob is becoming a predictor of Cordova's success: when he posts at least eight boards the team is 4-1 (and 1-2 when he doesn't). The team also got some help courtesy of Thomas Nothstine, who posted 24 points.

Cordova was working as a unit and finished the game with 21 assists. That's the most assists they've managed all season.

Defeat or not, Hooper Bay got some senior leadership from Billy Smith and Daylon Tall. Smith put up 13 points, while Tall scored 11 points.

The win (which was Cordova's fifth in a row) raised their record to 5-3. A key ingredient in that success has been their performance when it comes to offensive boards: they averaged an imposing 12.2 offensive rebounds in those games compared to only 12.2 in the others. As for Hooper Bay, their loss dropped their record down to 6-3.

Cordova has already played their next matchup, a 26-20 victory against Petersburg on the 31st. As for Hooper Bay, they also wasted no time getting back out on the court and have already played their next contest, a 62-48 defeat against Lumen Christi on the 31st.