Basketball Recap: Grundy County/Newtown-Harris Piles Up the Points Against Southwest

Panthers

Team Score

01/16/25 @ Southwest	64
12/09/24 vs Bevier	59
11/22/24 vs Novinger	54
12/16/24 vs Bucklin-Macon County	53
12/03/24 vs La Plata	47

Winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Grundy County/Newtown-Harris). They blew past the Southwest Wildcats 64-22 on Thursday. With the Panthers ahead 32-11 at the half, the contest was all but over already.

Hunter Miller was his usual excellent self, going 15 for 24 en route to 33 points and eight steals. That makes it eight consecutive games in which he has scored at least a third of Grundy County/Newtown-Harris' points. The team also got some help courtesy of Mason Rayl, who posted four points and seven rebounds.

Grundy County/Newtown-Harris was working as a unit and finished the game with 14 assists. That's the most assists they've managed all season.

Grundy County/Newtown-Harris pushed their record up to 6-6 with the victory, which was their ninth straight on the road dating back to last season. The wins came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 60.1 points per game. As for Southwest, they are on a 12-game losing streak (dating back to last season) that has dropped them down to 0-11.

Grundy County/Newtown-Harris wasted no time getting back out on the court and has already played their next matchup, a 72-60 win against Brashear on the 17th. Southwest has also already played their next game, a 64-32 loss against Northwestern on the 20th.