The Blue Ridge Fighting Tigers entered their tilt with the Eastside Eagles with six consecutive wins but they'll enter their next game with seven. Blue Ridge walked away with a 64-53 win over Eastside on Wednesday. That's another feather in the cap for Blue Ridge, who also won these teams' last head-to-head.
Blue Ridge was led to victory by Claire Skinner and Zikira henderson. Skinner scored 13 points along with seven rebounds and four steals, while henderson scored 21 points along with two steals. Henderson is absolutely dominating the steal category: she's posted at least two every time she's taken the court this season. Another player making a difference was Anyah Henderson, who scored eight points along with eight assists.
Blue Ridge is on a roll lately: they've won 12 of their last 13 games, which provided a nice bump to their 18-3 record this season. As for Eastside, this is the second loss in a row for them and nudges their season record down to 9-6.
Blue Ridge will be playing at home against Broome at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday. As for Eastside, they will head out on the road to face off against Riverside at 6:00 p.m. on Friday. Hopefully Riverside focused on turnovers this week since the team gave up 18 last Tuesday.
