It's hard to turn regular season success into postseason wins, a fact Freedom can now relate to. They had to suffer through an 80-13 loss at the hands of the Lake Wales Highlanders. While losing is never fun, the Patriots can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Florida basketball rankings (they are ranked 605th, while the Highlanders are ranked 101st).
Destiny Witherspoon continued her habit of posting crazy stat lines for Lake Wales, dropping a double-double with 25 points and 12 steals. Witherspoon has become a key player for Lake Wales: the team is undefeated when she posts at least three steals, but 7-8 otherwise. The team also got some help courtesy of Vanessa Squire, who posted nine points and five steals.
Freedom's loss dropped their record down to 5-17. As for Lake Wales, the victory made it two in a row for them and bumps their season record up to 15-8.
Freedom does not have any more games scheduled as of now. As for Lake Wales, they didn't take long to hit the court again: they've already played their next game, a 57-33 win against Sebring on the 8th.
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