The St. Augustine Yellow Jackets will head out on the road to face off against the Bartram Trail Bears at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday.
St. Augustine is probably headed into the game with a chip on their shoulder considering Leon just ended the team's four-game winning streak on Saturday. They fell just short of the Lions by a score of 50-48.
Meanwhile, Bartram Trail waltzed into their match on Friday with seven straight wins... but they left with eight. They put the hurt on the Pirates with a sharp 61-41 victory. The Bears pushed the score to 47-23 by the end of the third, a deficit the Pirates cut but never quite recovered from.
Bartram Trail's win came from a few key players St. Augustine will need to keep an eye on. One of the most notable was Jaxon Williamson, who dropped a double-double on 15 points and 11 assists. The dominant performance gave him a new career-high in assists. Another player making a difference was David Souza, who dropped a double-double on 14 points and 14 boards.
Bartram Trail was working as a unit and finished the game with 19 assists. They easily outclassed their opponents in that department as Fernandina Beach only racked up 12 assists.
Bartram Trail pushed their record up to 11-3 with the win, which was their fourth straight at home. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 57.5 points per game. As for St. Augustine, their loss dropped their record down to 9-2.
St. Augustine came up short against Bartram Trail in their previous meeting back in December of 2023, falling 51-46. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Bartram Trail's Landon Geren, who went 8 of 18 on his way to 27 points and six rebounds. Now that St. Augustine 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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