The Northridge Academy Pumas and the Leuzinger Olympians will face off at 6:00 p.m. on Saturday without much rest having both just played. Each of these teams will be battling to keep a five-game winning streak alive.
Northridge Academy's tournament run continued when they took on Crenshaw on Friday. Northridge Academy walked away with a 40-33 victory over Crenshaw.
Meanwhile, Leuzinger won against Moorpark on Thursday with 61 points and they decided to stick to that point total again on Friday. Leuzinger greeted the New Year with with a 61-47 win over Legacy. The victory was all the more spectacular given the Olympians' disadvantage in MaxPreps' California basketball rankings (they are ranked 637th, while the Tigers are ranked 260th).
Northridge Academy better focus on containing Tatyana Aubry and Brianna Ike as the pair were huge in Leuzinger's win. Aubry went 7 of 15 on her way to 21 points and eight assists, while Ike dropped a double-double on 19 points and 13 rebounds. The contest was Ike's sixth in a row with at least ten points. The team also got some help courtesy of Anna Lolohea Leka, who posted four points and nine rebounds.
Leuzinger was working as a unit and finished the game with ten assists. That's a new trend for them: they were averaging 5 assists per game earlier this season, but in their last 15 games they've averaged 6.8.
The win got Leuzinger back to even at 8-8. As for Northridge Academy, their victory bumped their record up to 9-2.
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