Basketball Recap: The Park School of Buffalo's Run of Four Straight Victories Now Over

The Park School of Buffalo lost against Bishop Timon-St. Jude on January 7th and unfortunately they wound up with the same result on Thursday. The match between The Park School of Buffalo Pioneers and the Bishop Timon-St. Jude Tigers didn't end well, with The Park School of Buffalo Pioneers falling 80-66. While losing is never fun, the Pioneers can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' New York basketball rankings (they are ranked 359th, while the Tigers are ranked 52nd).

Despite the loss, The Park School of Buffalo still got an impressive performance from Elijah Greene, who posted 24 points and eight boards. Greene's evening made it seven games in a row in which he has scored at least ten points. The team also got some help courtesy of Kamron Barge, who dropped a double-double on 16 points and 11 assists.

Bishop Timon-St. Jude got their win on the backs of several key players, but it was Nakyhi Harris out in front who dropped a double-double on 27 points and 16 rebounds. The dominant performance gave Harris a new career-high in boards. Another player making a difference was Damien Johnson, who went 8 of 17 on his way to 19 points and three steals.

With the loss, The Park School of Buffalo broke their four-game winning streak and moved their record to 9-8. As for Bishop Timon-St. Jude, they have been performing incredibly well recently as they've won eight of their last nine contests, which provided a nice bump to their 13-3 record this season.

The Park School of Buffalo will be playing in front of their home fans against Canisius at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Bishop Timon-St. Jude has already played their next game (against Starpoint), but no score has been uploaded at the time of writing.