Lafayette Christian lost to Ballard Christian on January 5th and unfortunately they wound up with the same result on Friday. The Cougars came up short against the Eagle, falling 55-31. While losing is never fun, the Cougars can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' basketball rankings in their respective home states (they are ranked 561st in Georgia, while the Eagle are ranked 219th in Alabama).
Keaton Murphy produced another solid performance dropping a double-double with 23 points and 13 rebounds for Ballard Christian. That makes it ten consecutive games in which Murphy has scored at least a third of the Eagle's points. The team also got some help courtesy of Peyton Pugh, who posted 12 points and seven boards.
This is the second loss in a row for Lafayette Christian and nudges their season record down to 2-7. Admittedly, the team was facing some tough opposition over that stretch, including 5-3 Trinity Christian School of Griffin (their opponents had an average overall winning percentage of 67.4% over those games). As for Ballard Christian, they have been performing incredibly well recently as they've won eight of their last nine games. That's provided a nice bump to their 13-5 record this season.
Lafayette Christian is taking a road trip to square off against Trinity Christian School of Griffin at 7:00 p.m. on Monday. As for Ballard Christian, they will host Central Christian Academy at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday.
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