Basketball Recap: St. Mary's Has No Trouble Against Pleasant Valley

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Previous 3 Games

03/04/25 - Home	67-43 W
12/28/16 - Neutral	62-49 W
12/02/16 - Neutral	78-60 W

It can be hard to translate regular season success to the playoffs, but St. Mary had no problem doing just that on Tuesday. Everything went their way against the Pleasant Valley Vikings as they made off with a 67-43 victory. The game was pretty much decided by the half, when the score had already reached 40-19.

Despite the loss, Pleasant Valley still got an impressive performance from Aj Gambol, who shot 50% from the field to rack up 25 points. That was a full 58.1% of Pleasant Valley's points, marking the fourth time in a row Gambol has posted more than a third of the team's points. The team also got some help courtesy of Ava Dunn, who earned no points and 14 boards.

St. Mary's is on a roll lately: they've won five of their last six contests. That's provided a massive bump to their 18-13 record this season. Those victories came thanks in part to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 60.2 points over those games. Pleasant Valley's defeat ended a three-game streak of away wins and brought them to 25-5.

Coming up, St. Mary's will be playing at home against Priory at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday. One thing working in St. Mary's favor is that they have posted at least 55 points in their last five matches. Pleasant Valley does not have any more games scheduled as of now.