Tigers
| 01/10/25 vs Little Cypress-Mauriceville | 100 |
| 12/13/24 vs Texas City | 99 |
| 01/03/25 vs Jasper | 96 |
| 11/26/24 vs Texas | 85 |
| 01/04/25 vs Hitchcock | 78 |
Winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Silsbee). They took their contest on Friday with ease, bagging a 100-70 victory over the Little Cypress-Mauriceville Bears. Given the Tigers' advantage in MaxPreps' Texas basketball rankings (they are ranked 357th, while the Bears are ranked 736th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Silsbee was led to victory by Payton Jones and Quinton Shoulders. Jones went 7 of 13 en route to 20 points along with seven assists and six steals, while Shoulders went 7 for 9 on his way to 20 points and five assists. The dominant performance gave Shoulders a new career-high in assists. The team also got some help courtesy of Troy Rice, who went 5 of 6 on his way to 11 points and six rebounds.
The win (which was Silsbee's fourth in a row) raised their record to 12-13. A key ingredient in that success has been their performance when it comes to three-point shooting accuracy: their three-point shooting accuracy was 30.5% in those games and 24.8% outside of them. As for Little Cypress-Mauriceville, they dropped their record down to 12-15 with the defeat, which was their fifth straight on the road.
Silsbee will head out to take on West Orange-Stark at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday. As for Little Cypress-Mauriceville, they will welcome Jasper at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Little Cypress-Mauriceville is facing Jasper at the right time seeing as Jasper is stuck on a four-game losing streak.
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