Basketball Recap: Athens Skates Past Sayre with Ease
By Team Reports
Jan 28, 2025, 5:28pm
Basketball Recap: Athens Wildcats vs. Sayre Redskins
Wildcats
| 01/28/25 @ Sayre | 60 |
| 01/17/25 @ Wellsboro | 54 |
| 01/04/25 vs North Penn-Liberty | 51 |
| 12/27/24 @ Sayre | 51 |
| 01/03/25 vs Towanda | 50 |
Winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Athens). They breezed by the Sayre Redskins to the tune of 60-13 on Tuesday. Given the Wildcats' advantage in MaxPreps' Pennsylvania basketball rankings (they are ranked 197th, while the Redskins are ranked 662nd), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Athens' victory was their third straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 9-3. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 53.7 points per game. As for Sayre, their defeat dropped their record down to 2-13.
Athens will take on Towanda at 7:15 p.m. on Thursday. Towanda will roll in looking for their seventh straight win, something Athens surely won't give up without a fight. As for Sayre, they will square off against Williamson at 7:15 p.m. on Thursday.
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