It may have taken overtime to finish the job, but the Lakeside Panthers ultimately got the result they hoped for on Saturday. They narrowly escaped with a victory as the team sidled past Josey 52-49. Lakeside's win was nothing new given the team hasn't lost yet this season.
Asunti Porter had a dynamite game for Lakeside, scoring 32 points along with 7 steals. That makes it two consecutive games in which Porter has scored at least 25% of Lakeside's points. The team also got some help courtesy of Kobi Barnes, who scored 8 points along with 17 rebounds and 7 blocks.
Josey's defeat shouldn't obscure the performances of Za?Miyah Jenkins z, who scored 12 points along with 8 rebounds, and Kayla McCord who scored 12 points. Another player making a difference was Sania Hills, who scored 7 points along with 9 rebounds.
Josey struggled to work together and finished the game with only two assists. They were crushed by their opponents in that department as Lakeside racked up 12.
Lakeside's victory bumped their record up to 3-0. As for Josey, their loss dropped their record down to 1-1.
Lakeside will head out on the road to face off against Greenbrier at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Hopefully Greenbrier focused on turnovers this week since the team gave up 34 on Saturday. Josey will be staying on the road on Friday to face off against Kell at 4:00 p.m. on November 24th. Kell will have to bring their A-game into this one, as they are staring down a pretty big deficit in the MaxPreps Georgia Rankings (they are ranked 244th, while Josey is ranked 107th).
