New Creation Christian Academy fought the good fight in their overtime game against HALO on Friday but wound up with a less-than-desirable result. They took a 72-67 hit to the loss column at the hands of the HALO Wolfpack. Despite running the score up even higher than they did in their prior game last Tuesday (66), the Crusaders still had to take the loss.
HALO was led to victory by Kenneth Haynes and Trenton Grissom. Haynes dropped a double-double on 23 points and 19 rebounds, while Grissom dropped a double-double on 22 points and 13 rebounds. Haynes has been hot for a while, having posted nine or more rebounds the last ten times he's played. Another player making a difference was DJ Smith, who earned ten points plus seven rebounds and five steals.
With the defeat, New Creation Christian Academy broke their four-game winning streak and moved their record to 4-1. As for HALO, the victory snapped their losing streak at four games and leaves them with a 3-6 record.
New Creation Christian Academy and Calvary Christian will face off at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday without much rest after finishing up games yesterday. As for HALO, they will get to enjoy the win for a while: their next game is against Providence Classical Christian at 7:00 p.m. on December 10th.
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