The Bartlett Panthers are ranked highly in their home state, and on Friday they took on another highly ranked team in the form of the Sierra Canyon Trailblazers. Bartlett was beaten by Sierra Canyon 69-32. The result shouldn't come as a shock considering that's the fewest points Bartlett has scored all season.
Bartlett lost despite a true team effort on the offense, the best among them being Carrington Jones, who scored ten points. The contest was Jones' third in a row with at least ten points.
Bartlett struggled to work together and finished the game with only three assists. That's the fewest assists they've managed all season.
Bartlett's defeat dropped their record down to 7-5. As for Sierra Canyon, they pushed their record up to 11-1 with that victory, which was their eighth straight on the road dating back to last season.
Bartlett and West Greene will round out the year against one another at 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday at. West Greene will have to bring their A-game into this one, as they are staring down a pretty big deficit in the MaxPreps Tennessee Rankings (they are ranked 293rd, while Bartlett is ranked 23rd). Sierra Canyon will have some time to savor their victory since their next game is a little ways off: they'll take on Harvard-Westlake at 6:30 p.m. on January 2, 2024.