The Genoa-Hugo/Karval Pirates won the last time they faced the Hanover Hornets, and things went their way on Saturday too. Genoa-Hugo/Karval strolled past Hanover with points to spare, taking the game 51-35. Winning is a bit easier when your three-point shooting is a whole 23% better than the opposition, as Genoa-Hugo/Karval's was.
Trey Smith went supernova for Genoa-Hugo/Karval, scoring 30 points along with 5 rebounds and 4 steals. That makes it two consecutive games in which Smith has scored at least 25% of Genoa-Hugo/Karval's points. Another player making a difference was Konner Rowden/Stum, who scored 11 points along with 7 rebounds and 3 steals.
Despite the loss, Hanover still got an impressive performance from Junior Diaz, who scored 11 points along with 8 rebounds and 3 steals. Tyler Decker was another key contributor, scoring 9 points along with 7 rebounds.
The win got Genoa-Hugo/Karval back to even at 1-1. As for Hanover, this is the second loss in a row for them and nudges their season record down to 0-2.
Genoa-Hugo/Karval will look to defend their home court on Thursday against Arickaree at 5:30 p.m. Hopefully Arickaree focused on turnovers this week since the team gave up 18 on Saturday. As for Hanover, they will head out on the road to face off against Cheraw at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday.
