Basketball Recap: Pike Valley Sets Scoring Season-High Against Natoma

Panthers

Team Score

02/04/25 @ Natoma	55
01/21/25 vs Lakeside	54
01/03/25 vs Centre	51
01/10/25 @ Lakeside	47
01/17/25 vs Natoma	46

Winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Pike Valley). They breezed by the Natoma Tigers to the tune of 55-22 on Tuesday. Perhaps unsurprisingly given the team's high-flying offense, the game also marked the team's biggest victory of the season.

Pike Valley was led to victory by Kylie Loring and Breanna Reeves. Loring went 9 of 22 en route to 25 points and six rebounds, while Reeves dropped a triple-double on 11 points, 12 boards, and ten assists. The dominant performance gave Loring a new career-high in points. Alexis Martin was another key player, putting up 11 points along with five rebounds and three steals.

Pike Valley smashed the offensive glass and finished the game with 16 offensive boards. The team's really been improving in that area: they've now improved their offensive board total in three consecutive contests.

Despite the loss, Natoma still got an impressive performance from Emma Lams, who posted six points and four steals. The team also got some help courtesy of MaKayla Murphy, who earned seven points.

Pike Valley has been performing well recently as they've won eight of their last ten games, which provided a nice bump to their 10-6 record this season. As for Natoma, they dropped their record down to 2-12 with the loss, which was their ninth straight at home dating back to last season.

Pike Valley has already played their next matchup (against Lincoln), but no score has been uploaded at the time of writing. Natoma has also has no score uploaded for their next contest, this one against Osborne.