Basketball Recap: Highland Prep Extends Home Winning Streak to Nine

Paxton Clarke

Points (Career)

12/10/24 vs River Valley	26
11/25/24 vs Camelback	19
11/21/24 vs Odyssey Institute	18
01/25/24 vs Mountainside	17
02/01/24 vs BASIS Phoenix	16

Highland Prep had won eight straight home games dating back to last season and Paxton Clarke did his part to make it nine on Tuesday. The Highland Prep Honey Badgers took their game with ease, bagging a 66-30 victory over the River Valley Dust Devils thanks in part to Clarke, who dropped a double-double on 26 points and ten boards. The dominant performance gave him a new career-high in points.

Another player making a difference was Aeden Calini, who almost dropped a double-double on nine points and 16 rebounds. Calini is crushing it when it comes to boards: he's pulled down at least 12 every time he's taken the court this season.

Highland Prep is on a roll lately: they've won four of their last five matches, which provided a nice bump to their 6-3 record this season. As for River Valley, they now have a losing record at 2-3.

Highland Prep will welcome Wickenburg at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday. Highland Prep is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 54.8 points per game this season. River Valley will take on Kingman in a holiday battle at 7:00 p.m. on Monday at. River Valley is facing Kingman at the right time seeing as Kingman is stuck on a six-game losing streak.