Freedom Christian Academy is 9-1 against Fayetteville Christian since January of 2019, and they'll have a chance to extend that success on Thursday. Freedom Christian Academy will be playing at home against the Fayetteville Christian Warriors at 7:00 p.m. Freedom Christian Academy has been dominant on offense recently, as they've racked up an incredible 503 points over their last seven contests.
Freedom Christian Academy pushed their score all the way to 77 on Tuesday, but even that wasn't enough to win. They took a 82-77 hit to the loss column at the hands of Northwood Temple Academy. Despite running the score up even higher than they did two weeks ago (63), Freedom Christian Academy still had to take the loss.
The losing side was boosted by Karsten Swinney, who scored 27 points along with 5 steals. He scored a full 35.1% of Freedom Christian Academy's points, the seventh time in a row he's earned more than a third of the team's points. Another player making a difference was DJ Jones, who scored 19 points.
Even though they lost, Freedom Christian Academy were working as a unit and finished the game with 19 assists. They easily outclassed their opponents in that department as Northwood Temple Academy only posted nine.
Meanwhile, after some red-hot offensive attacks in their last four matchups, Fayetteville Christian finally came back down to earth on Tuesday. They were dealt a 65-24 defeat at the hands of Trinity Christian. While losing is never fun, Fayetteville Christian can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' North Carolina basketball rankings (they are ranked 97th, while Trinity Christian is ranked fifth).
South Wake's win bumped their season record to 0-0 while Freedom Christian Academy's defeat dropped theirs to 2-4.
Freedom Christian Academy didn't have too much breathing room in their matchup against Fayetteville Christian in their previous matchup back in January, but they still walked away with a 63-59 victory. Does Freedom Christian Academy have another victory up their sleeve, or will Fayetteville Christian turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
