Basketball Recap: Chickasaw Sets Scoring Season-High Against East Central

Chieftains

Team Score

12/13/24 vs East Central	68
11/14/24 @ East Central	58
11/22/24 vs Citronelle	52
11/25/24 vs St. Paul's Episcopal	40
11/18/24 vs Satsuma	33
11/26/24 @ St. Michael Catholic	29

Winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Chickasaw). They took down the East Central Hornets 68-50 on Friday. The high-flying offensive performance was a huge turnaround for the Chieftains considering their 29-point performance the matchup before.

When it comes to explaining why East Central lost, don't look at Aj Hopkins. Despite the final result, he posted 27 points. That was a full 54% of East Central's points, marking the seventh time in a row he's put up more than a third of the team's points. The team also got some help courtesy of Brody Howard, who had 16 points.

The win got Chickasaw back to even at 3-3. As for East Central, their defeat was their 13th straight on the road dating back to last season, which dropped their record down to 1-8.

Chickasaw didn't take long to hit the court again: they've already played their next game, a 67-45 loss against Mobile Christian on the 14th. East Central and Wayne County will compete for holiday cheer at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday.