The Briarwood Academy Buccaneers will face off against the Edmund Burke Academy Spartans at 6:00 p.m. on Friday. Hopefully Briarwood Academy focused on turnovers this week since the team gave up 21 on Friday.
Last Friday, Briarwood Academy was just a bucket shy of victory and fell 51-50 to Edmund Burke Academy.
Defeat or not, Briarwood Academy got some senior leadership from Kennedy Mosley and Emma Scott. Mosley dropped a double-double on 23 points and 13 rebounds, while Scott. scored 19 points along with three steals. Mosley is on a roll when it comes to steals, as she's now grabbed two or more in the last 11 games she's played. The team also got some help courtesy of Caroline Stapleton, who scored three points along with six rebounds and two steals.
Briarwood Academy's loss dropped their record down to 20-4. As for Edmund Burke Academy, the win (which was their fifth in a row) raised their record to 16-6.
Briarwood Academy and Edmund Burke Academy were neck-and-neck in their previous matchup on Friday, but Briarwood Academy came up empty-handed after a 51-50 defeat. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Edmund Burke Academy's Leila Eastmead, who dropped a double-double on 18 points and 11 rebounds. Now that Briarwood Academy knows the damage she can cause, will they be able to stop her this time? There's only one way to find out.
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