Basketball Recap: Aquinas Sets Scoring Season-High Against Twin River

Monarchs

Team Score

01/14/25 vs Twin River	65
12/20/24 @ Osceola	62
01/07/25 vs Clarkson/Leigh	59
12/07/24 @ Logan View/Scribner-Snyder	59
01/03/25 vs Guardian Angels Central Catholic	55

Winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Aquinas). They strolled past the Twin River Titans with points to spare on Tuesday, taking the game 65-48. That's more bragging rights for the Monarchs, who also won the pair's last head-to-head.

Multiple players turned in solid performances to lead Aquinas to victory, but perhaps none more so than Bryant Stouffer, who dropped a double-double on 15 points and ten rebounds. Stouffer's evening made it three games in a row in which he has scored at least ten points. Another player making a difference was Garett Novacek, who went 8 for 16 on his way to 19 points and five boards.

Aquinas was working as a unit and finished the game with 21 assists. That's the most assists they've managed all season.

Twin River lost despite a true team effort on offense, the best among them being Colsten Rodriguez, who went 6 of 15 en route to 18 points. Corbin Rodriguez was another key player, putting up 15 points and seven rebounds.

Aquinas is on a roll lately: they've won five of their last six games, which provided a nice bump to their 8-5 record this season. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 50.8 points per game. As for Twin River, this is the second loss in a row for them and nudges their season record down to 4-8.

Aquinas has already played their next match (against Grand Island Central Catholic), but no score has been uploaded at the time of writing. Twin River wasted no time getting back out on the court and has already played their next contest, a 62-43 loss against Cross County on the 16th.