West Greene lost against Fort Cherry back in January and unfortunately they wound up with the same result on Tuesday. The West Greene Pioneers were just a bucket shy of victory and fell 62-61 to the Fort Cherry Rangers. Despite running the score up even higher than they did in their prior game last Saturday (57), the Pioneers still had to take the loss.
West Greene lost despite a true team effort on offense, the best among them being Lane Allison, who went 8 for 15 en route to 24 points. That was a full 39.3% of West Greene's points, marking the third time in a row he's posted more than a third of the team's points. The team also got some help courtesy of Parker Burns, who went 7 of 14 on his way to 14 points and seven rebounds.
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Even though they lost, West Greene smashed the offensive glass and finished the game with ten offensive rebounds. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now pulled down at least nine offensive boards in three consecutive matches.
West Greene's loss ended a six-game streak of wins at home and dropped them to 11-8. As for Fort Cherry, they are on a roll lately: they've won six of their last eight contests, which provided a massive bump to their 8-9 record this season.
West Greene will face off against Bethlehem Center at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. West Greene has been getting the ball to fall more lately as they've increased their point totals each of their last three games. Fort Cherry has already played their next game (against Mapletown), but no score has been uploaded at the time of writing.
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