After flying high against Prairie View on Friday, Denver East came back down to earth. The Denver East Angels came up short against the Windsor Wizards on Saturday, falling 71-46. The loss was the Angels' first of the season.
Despite the loss, Denver East still got an impressive performance from JEREMIAH IMAN JR, who scored 11 points plus seven rebounds and six assists. The team also got some help courtesy of MAURICE FULTCHER, who went 6 for 15 en route to 14 points plus two steals.
Multiple players turned in solid performances to lead Windsor to victory, but perhaps none more so than John Backhaus, who shot 5-for-6 from deep and dropped a double-double on 27 points and 11 rebounds. The dominant performance also gave Backhaus a new career-high in field goal percentage (82%). Another player making a difference was Madden Smiley, who went 8 for 12 en route to 19 points plus seven rebounds and three steals.
Having lost for the first time this season, Denver East fell to 2-1. As for Windsor, the win was the third in a row for them, bringing their record for this year to 3-0.
Denver East has already played their next contest (against Windsor), but no score has been uploaded at the time of writing. As for Windsor, they will hit the road for the first time this season to face off against Mead at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Windsor knows how to get points on the board -- the squad has finished with 55 points or more in their past three matchups -- so hopefully Mead likes a good challenge.
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