Basketball Recap: Northwest Sets Scoring Season-High Against Tara

Raiders

Team Score

01/17/25 @ Tara	78
12/26/24 @ Baker	76
12/14/24 vs Zachary	66
12/05/24 vs Sam Houston	64
01/14/25 @ Alexandria	63

Winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Northwest). They walked away with a 78-71 win over the Tara Trojans on Friday. Given the Raiders' advantage in MaxPreps' Louisiana basketball rankings (they are ranked 73rd, while the Trojans are ranked 208th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.

The victory snapped Northwest's losing streak at four games and leaves them with a 12-9 record. As for Tara, their defeat dropped their record down to 10-13.

Northwest will square off against DeRidder at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Tara has already played their next game (against Belaire), but no score has been uploaded at the time of writing.