It's hard to turn regular season success into postseason wins, a fact the Northeast Vikings can now relate to. They were the victim of a tough 65-43 defeat at the hands of the Vikings on Tuesday. While losing is never fun, Northeast can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Pennsylvania basketball rankings (they are ranked 166th, while Archbishop Wood is ranked 12th).
Darrius Gaeta and Makai Autry certainly did their best on Tuesday to avoid the loss. Gaeta scored 15 points along with two steals, while Autry scored eight points along with eight rebounds. Gaeta has been hot recently, having posted two or more steals the last 12 times he's played. Another player making a difference was Jalen Lee-womack, who scored eight points.
Northeast struggled to work together and finished the game with only two assists. That's the fewest assists they've managed all season.
This is the second loss in a row for Northeast and nudges their season record down to 19-6. As for Archbishop Wood, they are on a roll lately: they've won 11 of their last 12 matches, which provided a massive bump to their 16-8 record this season.
Northeast does not have any more games scheduled as of now. As for Archbishop Wood, they will head out on the road to challenge Upper Dublin at 5:15 p.m. on Tuesday. One thing working in Archbishop Wood's favor is that they have posted big point totals in their last 14 matchups.
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