Basketball Recap: First Philadelphia Prep Drops Season-High Score on Tacony Academy Charter

First Philadelphia Prep

Team Score

01/09/25 vs Tacony Academy Charter	68
12/19/24 @ Masterman	61
12/03/24 vs Philadelphia Electric Charter	59
12/10/24 @ Nueva Esperanza	58
12/17/24 @ Penn Treaty	51

Winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask First Philadelphia Prep). They managed a 68-63 win over the Tacony Academy Charter Lions on Thursday.

Tacony Academy Charter lost despite a true team effort on offense, the best among them being Malik James, who posted 24 points. Ethan Montero was another key player, putting up 16 points.

First Philadelphia Prep now has a winning record of 5-4. As for Tacony Academy Charter, their loss was their 15th straight on the road dating back to last season, which dropped their record down to 1-8.

First Philadelphia Prep won't have much time to rest: their next game is against La Academia Charter on Friday. As for Tacony Academy Charter, they and Bristol will face off at 6:00 p.m. on Friday without much rest having both just played.