This season hasn't been kind to the East Ridge Knights, who are still winless after their 15th game. They took a serious blow against Lake Minneola on Friday, falling 77-44. East Ridge has not had much luck with Lake Minneola recently, as the team's come up short the last three times they've met.
Despite the loss, East Ridge still got an impressive performance from Nicholas Vazquez, who scored 16 points along with two steals. That was a full 36.4% of East Ridge's points, marking the third time in a row he's earned more than a third of the team's points. The team also got some help courtesy of Roberto Alvarez, who scored four points.
Lake Minneola can attribute much of their success to Daishaun Davis, who scored 19 points along with eight rebounds and three steals. As a matter of fact, that's the most points Davis has scored all season. Another player making a difference was Landon Blackwell, who scored nine points along with five rebounds and four steals.
East Ridge's defeat was their eighth straight on the road dating back to last season, which bumped their record down to 0-15. As for Lake Minneola, the win got them back to even at 8-8.
East Ridge will be playing at home against Hope Academy at 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Hopefully Hope Academy focused on turnovers this week since the team gave up seven last Thursday. Lake Minneola won't have much time to rest: their next matchup is against Central Florida Christian Academy at 11:00 a.m. on January 13th. Central Florida Christian Academy will have to bring their A-game into this one, as they are staring down a pretty big deficit in the MaxPreps Florida Rankings (they are ranked 371st, while Lake Minneola is ranked 169th).
