Basketball Recap: Out-Of-Door Academy Sets Scoring Season-High Against Canterbury

Thunder

Team Score

01/04/25 vs Canterbury	68
12/19/24 vs Families Instructing Students HomeSchool	65
12/03/24 vs Southwest Florida Christian	65
12/17/24 @ Gulf Coast HEAT	63
01/02/25 vs Dunedin	53

Winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Out-of-Door Academy). They breezed by the Canterbury Crusaders to the tune of 68-39 on Saturday. That result was just more of the same for these two, as the Thunder also won the last time the pair played back in February of 2017.

Canterbury lost despite a true team effort on offense, the best among them being Lou Donnelly, who posted 13 points. Another player making a difference was Brooks Merrill, who put up 12 points in addition to six boards and three steals.

Out-of-Door Academy's win bumped their record up to 5-8. As for Canterbury, they are on a three-game losing streak that has dropped them down to 4-5.

Out-of-Door Academy will welcome Lakewood Ranch Preparatory Academy at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Lakewood Ranch Preparatory Academy has been getting the ball to fall more lately as they've increased their point totals each of their last four games. As for Canterbury, they will venture away from home to square off against Indian Rocks Christian at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Indian Rocks Christian is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 58.8 points per game this season.