
Spartans
12/16/24 vs Forest Hills | 61-44 |
12/13/24 vs Ballantyne Ridge | 68-57 |
12/10/24 @ Parkwood | 58-50 |
Sun Valley waltzed into their match on Monday with two straight wins... but they left with three. They took down the Forest Hills Yellow Jackets 61-44. That result was just more of the same for these two, as the Spartans also won the last time the pair played back in December of 2016.
Multiple players turned in solid performances to lead Sun Valley to victory, but perhaps none more so than Kaleel Benjamin, who went 7 for 9 on his way to 16 points and five rebounds. Jaylin Powell was another key player, putting up 11 points along with six assists and five boards.
Sun Valley was working as a unit and finished the game with 19 assists. That's the most assists they've managed all season.
Forest Hills lost despite a true team effort on offense, the best among them being Josh Huntley, who went 5 of 12 on his way to 12 points and six boards. The team also got some help courtesy of Makhi Massey, who posted 11 points.
The win got Sun Valley back to even at 5-5. As for Forest Hills, their defeat was their seventh straight on the road dating back to last season, which dropped their record down to 2-5.
Sun Valley will get to enjoy the win for a while: their next game is against Ben L. Smith at 8:00 p.m. on December 27th. As for Forest Hills, they didn't take long to hit the court again: they've already played their next contest, an 80-22 victory against Central Academy on the 17th.
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