Basketball Preview: Washington Prexies vs. Ellwood City Wolverine
The Washington Prexies will challenge the Ellwood City Wolverine at 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday. Washington will be strutting in after a win while Ellwood City will be coming in after a defeat.
Washington is headed out to face Ellwood City after opening their season at home and giving their fans just what they were looking for. Washington took their game on Monday with ease, bagging a 69-18 victory over Frazier. The match was pretty much decided by the half, when the score had already reached 48-9.
Olivia Woods and Kyndra Wynn were among the main playmakers for Washington as the former went 6 for 15 en route to 19 points plus eight assists and eight steals and the latter dropped a double-double on 18 points and 11 rebounds. The dominant performance gave Woods a new career-high in assists. The team also got some help courtesy of Xavier King, who went 6 for 13 en route to 12 points plus two steals.
Washington was working as a unit and finished the game with 12 assists. They easily outclassed their opponents in that department as Frazier only posted six.
Meanwhile, Ellwood City was within striking distance but couldn't close the gap on Monday as they fell 51-46 to Union Area. The Wolverine haven't had much luck with the Scotties recently, as the team's come up short the last three times they've met.
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