On Thursday, the Mandarin Mustangs lost to the Beachside Barracudas at home by a 70-51 margin. While losing is never fun, the Mustangs can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Florida basketball rankings (they are ranked 260th, while the Barracudas are ranked 101st).
Reese Holman
| 01/30/25 vs Beachside | 21 |
| 11/26/24 vs Lakeview Academy | 19 |
| 12/12/24 @ Atlantic Coast | 18 |
| 11/27/24 vs Boca Raton | 17 |
| 01/06/25 vs Paxon School For Advanced Studies | 17 |
Despite the loss, Mandarin still got an impressive performance from Reese Holman, who went 7 of 11 on her way to 21 points along with six boards and three blocks. Those 21 points gave Holman a new career-high. Justice Almon was another key player, putting up eight points.
Multiple players turned in solid performances to lead Beachside to victory, but perhaps none more so than Morgan Cremen, who went 7 for 17 en route to 18 points in addition to seven assists and seven steals. Cremen's evening made it six games in a row in which she has scored at least ten points. The team also got some help courtesy of Kendall Kane, who went 9 of 21 on her way to 22 points and five rebounds.
Mandarin now has a losing record at 9-10. As for Beachside, they have been performing well recently as they've won four of their last five contests, which provided a nice bump to their 11-9 record this season.
Both are set to take part in some playoff action in their next matches. Mandarin will challenge First Coast at 6:00 p.m. on Monday. Mandarin is facing First Coast at the right time seeing as First Coast is stuck on a five-game losing streak. Beachside has already played their next match (against Riverside), but no score has been uploaded at the time of writing.
Article generated by infoSentience based on data entered on MaxPreps
