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| 01/03/25 - Home | 21-76 L |
| 01/30/24 - Home | 56-53 W |
| 01/26/24 - Home | 52-49 W |
| 01/27/23 - Away | 78-52 W |
| 01/28/22 - Home | 83-36 W |
| + 5 more games |
John Paul II is 9-1 against Holy Cross since December of 2019 and they'll have a chance to extend that success on Tuesday. The John Paul II Guardians will head out to challenge the Holy Cross Knights at 7:30 p.m. John Paul II is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 50.6 points per game this season.
John Paul II will head into Monday's game on the come-up: they were handed a 28-point defeat in their previous outing, but that didn't affect their clutch gene on Monday. They sure made it a nail-biter, but they managed to escape with a 46-43 victory over The Christian School at Castle Hills.
Dj Miller was his usual excellent self, going 8 for 17 on his way to 23 points along with six boards and five steals. That makes it ten consecutive games in which he has scored at least a third of John Paul II's points. The team also got some help courtesy of Bryson Krug, who posted seven points and seven rebounds.
Meanwhile, Holy Cross waltzed into their match on Friday with four straight wins... but they left with five. They took their contest with ease, bagging a 74-39 win over the Eagles. The Knights pushed the score to 59-26 by the end of the third, a deficit the Eagles had no chance of recovering from.
Holy Cross' victory was their fourth straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 12-14. They've dominated over that stretch too, winning by an average of 46.2 points. As for John Paul II, their win bumped their record up to 6-11.
John Paul II took a serious blow against Holy Cross in their previous meeting on January 3rd, falling 76-21. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Holy Cross' Aaron Garcia, who went 14 of 16 en route to 31 points in addition to seven boards and six assists. Now that John Paul II knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? There's only one way to find out.
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