Bruins
| 02/14/25 vs Oak Hill | 66-40 |
| 02/11/25 vs Wes-Del | 78-56 |
| 02/01/25 vs Jay County | 56-41 |
Blackford entered their tilt with Oak Hill on Friday with two consecutive wins , and they'll enter their next game with three. Everything went their way against the Oak Hill Golden Eagles as they made off with a 66-40 win. The game was all but wrapped up at the end of the third, by which point the Bruins had established a 20 point advantage.
Blackford found their leader in freshman Amarian Leggett, who posted 11 points and five boards.
Jace Tonagel and RJ Shugart certainly did their best on Friday to avoid the loss. Tonagel had 18 points along with seven rebounds and five steals, while Shugart earned 13 points and four steals. That was a full 45% of Oak Hill's points, marking the fifth time in a row Tonagel has put up more than a third of the team's points. The team also got some help courtesy of Landon Watts, who scored two points and ten boards.
Blackford pushed their record up to 13-7 with the victory, which was their third straight at home. Those victories came thanks in part to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 66.7 points over those games. As for Oak Hill, their loss was their first in the conference, dropping their conference record down to 5-1 and their overall record down to 12-5.
Coming up, Blackford will head out to square off against Northwestern at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Blackford knows how to get points on the board -- the team has finished with 55 points or more in their past three matches -- so hopefully Northwestern likes a good challenge. As for Oak Hill, they didn't take long to hit the court again: they've already played their next contest, a 62-59 win against Logansport on the 15th.
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