If St. Stephens was riding high fresh off their 60-16 takedown of West Iredell last Friday, their most recent game may have dampened their spirits a bit. The St. Stephens Indians received a blow on Tuesday as they fell 55-38 to the North Iredell Raiders. While losing is never fun, the Indians can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' North Carolina basketball rankings (they are ranked 316th, while the Raiders are ranked 147th).
When it comes to explaining why St. Stephens lost, don't look at Kennedy Blevins. Despite the final result, she posted 19 points and seven boards. That was a full 50% of St. Stephens' points, marking the 15th time in a row she's put up more than a third of the team's points. The team also got some help courtesy of Addison Smith, who had seven points.
St. Stephens' loss ended a three-game streak of away wins and brought them to 7-12. As for North Iredell, they have been performing well recently as they've won five of their last six matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 13-6 record this season.
St. Stephens has already played their next game (against Hickory), but no score has been uploaded at the time of writing. North Iredell has also has no score uploaded for their next contest, this one against North Lincoln.
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