Basketball Recap: Hapeville Charter Skates Past Utopian Academy for the Arts with Ease

Hornets

Team Score

12/13/24 vs Utopian Academy for the Arts	80
12/10/24 vs Redan	60
11/08/24 @ Drew Charter	53
11/12/24 vs New Faith Christian Academy	51
11/22/24 vs Landmark Christian	47

Winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Hapeville Charter). They blew past Utopian Academy for the Arts 80-26 on Friday. The Hornets pushed the score to 68-20 by the end of the third, a deficit Utopian Academy for the Arts had no chance of recovering from.

Hapeville Charter's win was a true team effort, with many players turning in solid performances. Perhaps the best among them was Christopher Person, who made all 8 shots he took for 17 points. Those 17 points gave Person a new career-high. The team also got some help courtesy of Kody Brown, who posted 12 points and five steals.

Hapeville Charter was working as a unit and finished the game with 19 assists. That's the most assists they've managed all season.

When it comes to explaining why Utopian Academy for the Arts lost, don't look at Quevion Johnson. Despite the final result, he put up 12 points and four steals.

The victory got Hapeville Charter back to even at 5-5. As for Utopian Academy for the Arts, they are on a 12-game losing streak (dating back to last season) that has dropped them down to 0-10.

Hapeville Charter and Rockdale County will compete for holiday cheer at 5:00 p.m. on Friday. Rockdale County knows how to get points on the board -- the team has finished with 55 points or more in their past three matches -- so hopefully Hapeville Charter likes a good challenge. As for Utopian Academy for the Arts, they wasted no time getting back out on the court and have already played their next game, an 82-48 defeat against Arlington Christian on the 16th.