Valley lost against Northland Prep Academy back in January and unfortunately they wound up with the same result on Saturday. The Valley Pirates took a 67-62 hit to the loss column at the hands of the Northland Prep Academy Spartans. Despite running the score up even higher than they did in their prior game on Friday (57), the Pirates still had to take the loss.
Valley lost despite a true team effort on offense. The best among them was Jake Apachee, who posted 15 points and six boards. Another player making a difference was Eric Slim, who dropped a double-double with 20 points and 13 rebounds.
Jaden Joiner continued his habit of posting crazy stat lines for Northland Prep Academy, going 10 of 20 en route to 29 points and seven boards. The dominant performance gave Joiner a new career-high in points. Kian Khatibi was another key player, putting up 13 points and four steals.
This is the second loss in a row for Valley and nudges their season record down to 14-13. That patch can't be blamed on the team's offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 59.5 points over those games. As for Northland Prep Academy, they have been performing well recently as they've won 14 of their last 17 matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 21-10 record this season.
As of now, neither Valley nor Northland Prep Academy have any future games scheduled.
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