After both having extra time off, the South Pasadena Tigers and the Academy of Our Lady of Peace Pilots will dust off their jerseys to face off against one another at 6:00 p.m. on Friday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (South Pasadena has four straight wins, Academy of Our Lady of Peace has 11 straight losses), but none of that matters once you're on the court.
South Pasadena will head into Saturday's game having proved themselves against La Canada: South Pasadena took a 36-point defeat the last time they faced off against La Canada, but this time they managed to keep it close and that made all the difference. South Pasadena skirted past La Canada 53-51.
Kayla Boozer was her usual excellent self, dropping a double-double on 35 points and 16 boards. That makes it five consecutive games in which she has scored at least a third of South Pasadena's points. The team also got some help courtesy of Brylee Woo, who posted six points and six boards.
South Pasadena was working as a unit and finished the game with 14 assists. That's the most assists they've managed all season.
Meanwhile, Academy of Our Lady of Peace suffered their closest loss since January 20th last Monday. They fell just short of Morse by a score of 41-39. While losing is never fun, the Pilots can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' California basketball rankings (they are ranked 884th, while the Tigers are ranked 266th).
Academy of Our Lady of Peace's defeat dropped their record down to 0-10. As for South Pasadena, they now have a winning record of 4-3.
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